] The University of Toronto's Internet Censorship Explorer ] permits anyone with a Web browser to test the limits of ] certain national and organizational Internet-blocking ] schemes. Users simply enter a target URL and a country ] into a search field on the Censorship Explorer's website. ] The software then scans the ports of available servers in ] that country, looking for open ones. By using the foreign ] computer as a proxy server, ICE then attempts to visit ] the target URL from behind that country's firewall. The ] result is either the visible website or a "page blocked" ] message is then returned to the user. |