Guide Aims to Help Bloggers Beat Censors, Maintain Privacy

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Guide Aims to Help Bloggers Beat Censors

By SOPHIE NICHOLSON
PARIS (AP) - A Paris-based media watchdog has released a free guide with tips for bloggers and dissidents to sneak past Internet censors in countries from China to Iran.

Reporters Without Borders' ``Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents'' is partly financed by the French Foreign Ministry and includes technical advice on how to remain anonymous online. It was launched at the Apple Expo computer show in Paris on Thursday and can be downloaded in Chinese, Arabic, Persian, English and French.

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The advice varies depending on the user's level of paranoia - from changing cyber-cafes to sending cryptographically signed messages via specially formatted e-mail.

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The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation also published an online guide this year to help Web diarists keep their blogs anonymous. That includes pointers on anonymizing technologies, including the EFF's own Tor, and tips on keeping postings out of search engines. The guide, though, was mostly aimed at preventing firings rather than bypassing censorship.

On the Web:

RSF handbook: http://www.rsf.org

EFF guide: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php

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