Excerpted from Canada.com:

Sharon Hom, executive director of New York-based Humanr Rights in China, said in a statement that Psiphon has "great potential" but isn't a "magic bullet."

"The Chinese government has deployed vast resources to maintain information control and censorship," Hom said.

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For more information on this issue:

• China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
  "A Conversation with Citizen Lab" - Sharon Hom interviews Ron Deibert and Nart Villeneuve on their work battling Internet censorship.
• China Rights Forum, No.2, 2006:
  "The Hijacked Potential of China's Internet" - He Qinglian details the ways in which government controls have forced China to miss out on the full benefits of the Internet revolution.
• Written testimony submitted to U.S. Congressional Hearing:
  "The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?"
• China Rights Forum, No.3, 2005:
  "Logging on in China's Internet Cafes: An HRIC Field Survey"
• China Rights Forum, No.4, 2004:
  "Media Control in China"
• HRIC Case Study:
  "Human Rights and Spam: A China Case Study"
• China Rights Forum, No.3, 2003:
  "The Rise of the Internet and Advancing Human Rights"