“On its official blog, Google announced the launch of Project Shield, to help protect websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the Digital Attack Map, which tracks DDoS attcks in realtime, so they can be exposed as they happen, and uProxy, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that works like an easily shared personalized virtual private network (VPN) to allow people living under controlling regimes to surf the Web via connections to users elsewhere, evading censorship and surveillance. Given the criticism that Google has come under for collaborating with the NSA and other elements of the U.S. government, it’s good to see them doing something for the good guys.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/22/google-launches-tools-for-evading-govern