Donated blog post: Proxy server project for Iran
This post is being donated to Danny O’Brien, and his very cool ideas using Opera Unite. I add my name to this challenge. Come up with this and I’ll set up and run any needed server space and find the people to promote, disseminate and otherwise flog this in farsi.
Now, over to Brian:
The demo services that Opera offers are great, but they really are just demonstrations. It’s generating a lot of excitement and “wuh?” in equal measure on the discussions I’ve seen, which is something I recognise from my attempts to proselytize the edge to those already excited by the cloud.
It occurred to me (encouraged by Stef) that a great and timely Opera Unite application, just for the next few days, would be a web proxy for Iranians. Run it on your Opera service, post your machine’s Unite URL onto twitter with a tag #spartacus, and Iran would be drowning in potential proxies to use.
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