We all know that countries like China, Singapore, North Korea, as well as organizations such as the U.S. military, the State of Kentucky, and various corporations, local school districts and public libraries censor their Internet users’ web surfing. Bennett Haselton of Peacefire has a solution he calls the Circumventor.
And to bring in more Circumventor users, Peacefire is paying $10 per IP address to anyone who installs the anti-censorship software and leaves it running for at least a week.
Circumventor is a simple piece of software based on James Marshall’s CGIProxy script running under ActiveState Perl and the OpenSA web server on Windows 2000 or XP. (No word on whether it runs on Windows Vista, but I suspect it would.)
Once installed, the Circumventor creates a small Web service for which Peacefire then shares its URL with “people who need them, such as people serving in the U.S. military overseas, and victims of totalitarian dictatorships such as China, North Korea, and high school,” Haselton wrote on the Peacefire Web site.
It usually takes three or four days before Web filtering companies and national governments add new URLs to their blocking lists, Haselton said.
To get paid, you simply install the Circumventor software:
Note that even if you have more than one computer in your home, you can only install it on one computer per external IP address (the address assigned by your ISP), you need a broadband connection where the IP address will remain the same for at least a week, and you may need to forward port 443 from your cable or DSL modem’s firewall to your computer.
Once you’ve installed it, e-mail bennett@peacefire.org with the URLs of the Circumventor scripts, which the program gives you during setup. After they’ve been up a week, he’ll send you $10 via PayPal or mail you a check.
And you’ll be helping people in less free countries bypass their national censorship filters, as well as helping U.S. servicemembers bypass their censorship filters.
(Hat tip: Electronic Frontier Foundation)
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Sep 06, 2006
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forstand
Sep 06, 2006
At this time I cannot do this due to living in a motel while looking for work in Idaho. I will bookmark this and return later at no charge for the bounty being paid. I don’t need the bounty but sure could use the karma…
J. Bruno
Sep 08, 2006
WHAT IF TEH TERRORISTS HACK ME? OR THE CHINAMEN???!
Tyler hemingsen
Sep 08, 2006
is this just recently that they are paying, because i have installed the circumventor to get around my schools sonic wall a while back but recieved no information about thia
mattias
Sep 18, 2006
stupid computers here at school running a process under system called
mcshield.exe which i know iss the webscense process but it is protected
by spoolsv.exe which is some other blocking system i dont know of.
i know administrator passcode for computer but still cant control system
processes. i install circumventor to specified settings and permissions
but it still doesnt work i need some cmdline codes for ending system processes please email me at xpmxtimberwolf@mail.ru or drop an answer at my maysace
www.myspace.com/i_lik3_m3. thanks for all your help. spasibo
...
Sep 21, 2006
Never heard of Tor?
Big Sherm
Oct 17, 2006
How can I get pass my high school SmartFilter Best edition.
https://70.230.167.114/peacefire875762 used to work but won’t anymore.
Anything I can do?
school student
Oct 17, 2006
my school already has a filter called websense that blocks me from
downloading the nessary circumventor software. is there a way around it?
Michael Hampton
Oct 17, 2006
Student, you don’t download anything if you’re trying to bypass a web filtering system. Please read the directions again.
war vet
Oct 23, 2006
im currently in iraq and the filters block even peacefire. do you guys
have a circumventor that i can access that isnt peacefire? all i want to do is check my myspace and read an american non-military newspaper.
aaron
Oct 27, 2006
im tryin click one of these “link” buttons on this site and none are working for me. im currently in iraq and i get blocked every few days! im trying to find one just to get on myspace, so if you could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. i dont even know if this is where i should be writing this but im giving a shot.
thanks, aaron
Michael Hampton
Oct 27, 2006
Aaron, (and everyone else) this site is talking about setting up your computer stateside so that people like you in Iraq can bypass the web filters. It doesn’t do you any good if you’re already over there.
Go back to the main Circumventor site and you can sign up to receive e-mail when the address changes. (It has to change every few days because the blocking software takes a few days to catch up.)
If you can’t reach that site, I suggest e-mailing Bennett and he should be able to get you connected.
Wesley
Nov 13, 2006
I’m a student at a highschool that has extremely heavy censorship…I
don’t have acess to the internet at home and the censorship is causing
a problem even for the teachers. The technology center will not remove
the new restrictions and the teachers have commisioned some friends and
myself to find a solution. I don’t have acess to e-mail to recieve the
new URLs and I am not even able to sign up
I’ve found a site that will help, but it can’t facilitate everything
that I need. Though it may be of some help to those of you who just
want to get past to minor sites.
https://palary.org It works well enough but I would really like to
have acess to those URLs. Do you think you could help me out?
It would be apprieciated immensly. thx.
Wes
Jarhyn
Nov 28, 2006
I have CGI proxy running on my webserver, so if you need one that isn’t peacefire and a pretty obscure URL, shoot me an email to my spam address. (spam-@-jarhyn.org remove the -’s) and I’ll get to setting up a username and password for you to use it.
Keep in mind I am going to be keeping this on the down-low because I can’t afford this ending up on block lists; I use it to circumvent my own university’s net nanny.
Wesley
Dec 07, 2006
well, you see, my problem is that i can’t get to my email and i don’t have access at home. i can’t even get to my military email here, let alone personal email. but i do appreciate your help in suggesting that. If i could i would. :)
Rob
Dec 29, 2006
Afghanistan here, thanks for all you guys are doing,
I cant even read my personal email on most gov networks!
fuck the man.
High School Tech
Jan 16, 2007
Those of you in High School trying to circumvent Internet Proxies beware that if you are caught circumventing the Internet Security that you can lose you internet access in your school. School districts are usually required to have filtering software to protect students from “Internet Preditors” but also to protect the computer within the network. Many sites that students are trying to access either have inappropriate material or are littered with viruses that can take down a entire network. You have to ask yourself, why do you need to bypass the filter? More than likely it is because you are trying to get to a site that does not have appropriate material on it.
The bottom line; in a high school environment the computers are there to facilitate learning, not for MySpace, not to play games, not to chat and not to download music. Your parents pay taxes so that you can learn in school not to play games and surf the internet. You want to surf the net and play games do it at home.
Sincerely,
A Concerned School Administrator
Another student
Jan 31, 2007
Thanks to Wesley for the link.
Another good link is grab.cc but it just got blocked for us.
AZN DUDE
Feb 05, 2007
“High School TEch”
FUCK YOU, and GET OUTTA HERE
NO ONE LIKES PEOpLE LIKE YOU
I dont have internet access at home, so I depend on the schools. Assholes like you prevent me from just checking my e-mail or checking my myspace. No, I’m not gonna bring down the school network cuz I’m AZN and I know better, and smart too!!!! But I just hate BITCHES LIKE YOU just trippn like this.
Anonymous
Feb 06, 2007
please i just want to read my email
a highschool student
Feb 06, 2007
haha.. “High School Tech” Spelled ‘Predator’ wrong.
ANYWAYS some of us go to boarding schools, so its not like we can go home and get on myspace every night.
BYE
the gingerbread man
Feb 22, 2007
At a dorm, you do not have complete access to the internet even if you pay for an indavidual line, it hinders music downloads, games, and even research. The only downside to the circumventor is that sometimes kids (little downloading bastards) acces viruses and other crap, porno, ect… and screw up the whole system. So grow up, do what you have to do, download the circumventor, and dont fuck it up for everyone else.
Raissa
Feb 27, 2007
Hey…I’m looking for a good one that will let me on myspace at school. Email me a few links? Anything from Peacefire no longer works.
Thanks
salomi
Mar 09, 2007
hey i need a proxy anyone know one??? or lots?
Anonymous
Mar 22, 2007
try proxypup.com
Mathew
Mar 28, 2007
WE have iprism st berard model 1200. we once had the defult password and user name, but they changed it. we have used some proxy and circuventor sites but they are blocked within a few days….we need an undetectable site that is myspace and yahoo mail ready…but i know that it takes away the anonymity, but if you can help thanks.
Anonymous
Mar 29, 2007
circumventors can be a real waste of time get to the source and break ur schools firewalls
Richard
Mar 30, 2007
Thanks for your help
blahblahblahblah
Apr 03, 2007
Hey man, I wanna bypass my school’s blocking system simply, with a free ID address, not pay to BRING DOWN THE ENTIRE NETWORK AND GET EXPELLED.
Go away.
vilay
Apr 11, 2007
Hey everyone I a core duo at home running CGI proxy. It was built mainly for US Military members who can’t get past their LAN firewalls. The service is free to everyone. Go ahead spread the word!
Student
Apr 11, 2007
My school has astaro security system, if anyone can find a way to bypass is it would be very thankful
fantom909
Apr 19, 2007
i didnt know this are they still doing it because i am about to do this for school my schools filter is kinda hard to hack so why not just go around it with an anynothingy everyone in my school is paying me to do this anyway but that would be a nice bonus also i feel bad for the peopel in karea i mean the filter is terrible here imagen how it must be there
fantom909
Apr 19, 2007
also you can just search the word circumventor in google and fine one i thought this was a easy solution o and have your tried eloog i think it may still work idk though
fantom909
Apr 19, 2007
victims of totalitarian dictatorships such as China, North Korea, and high school,†Haselton wrote on the Peacefire Web site
fantom909
Apr 19, 2007
lmao ^^^^^ wtf why is highschool included in it
M Vizzle
May 04, 2007
High Schools are victom of totalitarian views where one principal rules and says what happens and you have no say in the rules or what happens
fantom909
May 04, 2007
well then there is always the tinker v demous case
Jb
May 08, 2007
ok wtf we shouldn be bitchin we should be workin together to get over this could someone please write a few proxies thjat work
x jb
x
fantom909
May 09, 2007
ok go to peacefire.org and set up an account with them they will email you proxies everyweek about 30 of them
May 15, 2007
Defense Department blocks YouTube, Myspace, MTV.com - Homeland Stupidity
Veevz
May 22, 2007
Some of us can’t go to peacefire.org thanks to the administrators of our school computers. AND we don’t have computer access out of school to set up an account.
I don’t use the web at my school to diddle around on sites that are harmful to the system, nor do I use it to play games. It’s my way of talking to my family across the country.
Michael Hampton
May 22, 2007
There’s the public library, your friend’s house, and many other possibilities. Get creative.
mariah
May 24, 2007
hey i need to know what web site i can get on to go to myspace im at school right now and its really boring so if anyone knows how leave a message on here and i will check it as soon as pssible to get it and find ok lol welp thanks bye bye!!
t9
May 27, 2007
we hav astaro internet securtiy here and there is absolutely no sites it lets me get on that hav Anonymous proxies. it blocks all the ones i know. plz post a list of sites that can help me
fantom909
May 30, 2007
im working on it whenever i get the list from the site that i go to i will give it to you
Coke_can64
Jun 14, 2007
ARGH! What’s with U ppl? Ur supposed to be helpin each other, not beeotchin about non workin proxies…
KTizzzz
Jun 14, 2007
try
it works wonders =]
lagi
Jun 15, 2007
well hello I am just writing to you to please un block myspace because you know the kids these days really want to write to there old friends and you know all other kind of stuff please just give these kids a place for happiness and all the stuff they nned juss let them have a chance go on there well thank you for your time I thank.
sincerely,
lagi tuilata
tongan_sweety
Jun 15, 2007
what iit dew how iish you guys doiin welps ne ways juss shoviin mah ass through tew show shumlove welps n ways stay up aiight =]
Anonymous
Jun 22, 2007
ummm wtf did you just say?
Jul 21, 2007
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guy
Aug 07, 2007
download open ssh or remotelyanywhere and tunnel easy as
hmm?
Aug 20, 2007
well bitching is the american way of solving problems granted it doesn’t work very well but it’s american.
infinity
Aug 23, 2007
are there any mirror sites to download Circumventor setup file? Because Peacefire’s website is already blocked in this country, Qatar, and even using download managers cannot download the file maybe because they are filtering the URL and domain name of the link. thanks!
angela...
Sep 13, 2007
i go to boarding school and we have no access to peacefire.org, or other circumventor sites. if someone could please send me some new and working proxy sites it would be much appreciated…
email is angela.kiellor@education.nsw.gov.au
thankyou.
i dunno
Oct 05, 2007
any one know what the fuck to do because i had a proxy to get past smart filter but it got blocked on a global block list how cani get past it?
poopy face
Oct 18, 2007
can some one just list some proxies, that would help
state champ 140
Nov 20, 2007
the link is blocked. what do i do?
some dude
Dec 05, 2007
i have been working with internet censorship for a while… many of the “next generation” kids are having an arms race with the “last generation”; viruses are easy to avoid, why the fuck would u watch porn at school. Bennett Haselton has the bigger nuke… he is one step ahead.. circumventors are very useful and thriving.. don’t ask how to bypass it proxies are almost useless now.. make a circumventor or ask a freind…
P.S: fuck cencorship