Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases.
To contact Derek email him directly: derekb.lowe@gmail.com
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I appreciate the mail I've had on this subject, and wanted to provide a brief update for those who are interested. If you've set up a proxy server for Iran, you can submit it here - Austin Heap is the guy running this part of the effort. There's also a test page where you can see if you have things configured correctly. Anyone needing more technical details, please drop me a note - I'll either answer it myself or send you on to someone who can. I am, truth be told, not exactly one of the 1337-est haxors around, but one does what one can.
Besides proxy servers, Tor is also a good choice.
You can combine Tor with Firefox. Tor will help you to loop through a series of different hosts by P2P means, using encrypted connections, and then get out onto the internet in the "free" world.
Also, softwares such as Freegate may be useful. It has been used for quite a long time to get around the Great Firewall by Chinese netizens. I believe it also works well in Iran, as its internet censorship tools are much less elaborate and strong than the Chinese one...
(http://www.dit-inc.us/freegate)
1. McChemist on June 23, 2009 5:07 PM writes...
I have to say, of all the terms that could possibly show up on this blog, I never thought I'd see you drop '1337' on us. Or 'haxor' for that matter.
Permalink to Comment2. Derek Lowe on June 23, 2009 6:24 PM writes...
Hey, hang around here and there's no telling what you'll get. . .!
Permalink to Comment3. Andy on June 24, 2009 3:08 AM writes...
Fantastic, you are too modest to be sure.. I had you pegged as man with plenty of 1337 skills.. ;)
Permalink to Comment4. Anonymous on June 24, 2009 7:16 AM writes...
Besides proxy servers, Tor is also a good choice.
You can combine Tor with Firefox. Tor will help you to loop through a series of different hosts by P2P means, using encrypted connections, and then get out onto the internet in the "free" world.
Also, softwares such as Freegate may be useful. It has been used for quite a long time to get around the Great Firewall by Chinese netizens. I believe it also works well in Iran, as its internet censorship tools are much less elaborate and strong than the Chinese one...
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