[[Freedom Tools|Here’s an idea to distribute tools and knowledge to fight censorship.]] Excerpt:

Perhaps a simple PHP or Perl script in combination with a central web repository of “freedom tools” and documentation could enable more people to help others to exercise their human rights.

The web script would be installed by anyone who wants to help people to get secure, censorship-resistant, anonymous Net access. The script would be called “rename-me.php” or similar, and the user installing it would be asked to give it an arbitrary name of their choosing.

After placing it in a writable directory on their server and executing it, the script would download a signed archive (ZIP file) from the central “freedom tools” repository. It would also output a bunch of HTML for the webmaster to put on their website. This HTML would contain a reference to a nice button image which would function as a link to the script.

On subsquent calls of the script, it would produce a download page which is an HTML skeleton that redirects the visitor to the ZIP file. The download page could be customized by the webmaster. As an added bonus, the script could perform platform (operating system) detection and redirect to a platform-specific archive.

See the [[Freedom Tools|wiki page]] for what this ZIP file could contain, and how such a system could be used to create thousands of entrypoints into free, secure networks. Please [[edit:Freedom Tools|edit the idea]] or add your comments!