SQT: Access Flickr in UAE, Iran, China

If you are in Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and any other country that bans access to photo sites like Yahoo’s Flickr you will know the frustration of not being able to see other people’s holiday snaps. In steps, Access Flickr an addon for Firefox that circumvents the ban, assuming you are allowed to use Firefox and can install addons. Give it a try and let me know what you think of my Flickr photo stream.

I wrote this SQT item at the beginning of September and spotted a neat little tool mentioned on ghacks called GPass, that is worth mentioning here. Apparently, it free software that provides an encrypted connection to bypass Internet censorship and restrictions. It “makes use of encrypted socks tunnels to launch applications and can use Skype and Tor as backup tunnels.”