An inspection of the proxy servers offered up online over the past few days as a way to help Iranians maintain access to unfiltered Web content, shows that the servers are being hosted in as many as 87 countries.
What's unclear, though, is just how many of the proxy servers were set up for the explicit purpose of helping Iranians circumvent Internet censorship and how many were up and running before the recent communications crackdown there, according to James Cowie, CTO of Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H.-based Internet monitoring firm.
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