Google announced at its Ideas Summit in New York that it is developing a browser extension that make it possible to bypass country-specific Internet censorship and make connections more private and safer.
"The tool, which was developed by the University of Washington and seeded by Google, is at its core a peer-to-peer personalized virtual private network (VPN) that redirects Internet traffic coming from and initial, less secure connection through a second, trusted connection, and then encrypts the pathway between two terminals.
Let's assume that Barry, who lives in a country with an Internet censorship, contacts Jim, who has a much safer, or uncensored, or unmonitored access to the Internet.
Jim agrees to act as a proxy for Barry, and as long as his browser is open, Barry's outgoing web traffic will be routed through Jim's connection. The connection between Barry and Jim is encrypted.
uProxy is a true P2P service, so there is no centralized server that governments can block. The data packets are encrypted so that they cannot be easily flagged by a malicious user (or government). "The service doesn't anonymize traffic like Tor, and isn't a file sharing tool as it only proxies traffic from web servers."
Source: uProxy
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