The internet freedom is an issue that has garnered a lot of attention, especially after the recent 'Freedom on the Net 2013' report, by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world, which stated that broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content, and growing arrests of social-media users resulted in a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the 
past year. However, the anti-censorship segment is fighting back. idcloak Technologies, which specializes in Internet security, privacy and freedom, annouced the launch of its software-based web VPN which provides secure connection to an international network of highly anonymous servers so users may access the internet from alternate global locations. idcloack Technologies claims that the VPN system is especially designed to bypass internet blocks of any kind without revealing the identity or activity of the user and is immune to even the best censorship systems, such as China’s Golden Shield, which employs deep packet inspection (DPI) to enhance their filters, rooting out and blocking any sign of proxy activity. As well as beating censorship, the idcloak VPN can be used for numerous other tasks, such as protection from government surveillance, accessing domestic-only services from abroad and using the internet anonymously.
“Unlike other proxy services, our web VPN carries all internet packets to and from your device via an encrypted tunnel,” explains idcloak’s anti-censorship specialist, Robin Welles. “We are not just talking about your browser activity, here; the VPN will carry Skype, IM programs, torrents… everything. If any website or service is blocked in your current location, the VPN connects you through a new one.” "Our encryption prevents any intermediary party from identifying what is being sent or received through a VPN server. There is no way a filter system, even one using DPI, can determine what the user is accessing.”
Another tactic used by censors is to block the ports through which VPNs operate. “When a censor shuts off the right ports, it prevents VPN users from connecting to the servers. There have been many reports of this happening with regular VPNs so we made sure we found a way round it. Our service uses a special trick to blend in with regular encrypted traffic, like customer logins to online banks. Because of this, the censors can only block an idcloak VPN if they shut down access to all other secure services too, which of course they are never going to do.”
