{"id":1260,"date":"2011-12-17T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T22:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/17\/us-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:53","slug":"us-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/17\/us-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Funded Internet Liberation Project Finds Perfect Test Site: Occupy D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/838393913\/u-s-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds-perfect-test-site-occupy-d-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/838393913\/u-s-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds-perfect-test-site-occupy-d-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/77nsqtBvKzfvStz4qmc6vTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>&hellip;project will lead to low-cost, easy-to-use wireless connections around the globe, all lashed together in mesh that can withstand the whims of dictators willing to pull the plug on the internet to quash dissent. He and a team of software engineers are developing open-source software to turn cheap wireless access points and Android smartphones into nodes on the network, which could then be used by dissidents to evade censorship and to spread low-cost connections everywhere around the world.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/12\/internet-suitcase-dc\/all\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties&hellip;project will lead to low-cost, easy-to-use wireless connections around the globe, all lashed together in mesh that can withstand the whims of dictators willing to pull the plug on the internet to quash dissent. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/17\/us-funded-internet-liberation-project-finds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":449,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/08\/15\/a-portable-router-that-conceals-your-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":1260,"position":0},"title":"A portable router that conceals your Internet traffic","author":"aslam","date":"August 15, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Called Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty (PORTAL), the project is a pre-built software image for an inexpensive pocket-sized \u201ctravel router\u201d to automatically protect its owner\u2019s Internet traffic. 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