Dear respected and wise developers, hello, I am a long-term investor in ICP. In the process of following ICP for three years, I have always been confident in ICP and often pay attention to the progress of our roadmap. However, I still have some confusion about the future development of the ICP network, and I would like to ask you to explain it to me here.
I am a heavy internet user in mainland China. As is well known, there is a GFW in China’s internet due to certain reasons. Over more than ten years of development and upgrades, this firewall has become increasingly powerful, with unprecedented upgrades to both software and hardware. Today, it can block and control the access of all Chinese people to information on the global internet. As long as the website content contains criticism of the Chinese government or discussions of human rights, those links will be immediately blocked and censored. This is a severe case of information blockade and content censorship, as well as a form of totalitarian rule that George Orwell predicted. A recent incident involves an internet security expert, whose program-think blogger was tried and sentenced to imprisonment.
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At present, to access Google, Twitter, and GitHub, we need to constantly change VPNs to briefly bypass the blockade.
I saw that ICP has a roadmap direction for opening up boundary nodes in the future，
Blockquote This feature enables NNS-driven deployment of boundary nodes, establishing a fully-automated installation and configuration process. The operating system, IC OS, currently used for replica nodes, will also be used for boundary nodes. This solution eliminates manual intervention by DFINITY Foundation employees and builds a basis for ongoing decentralization efforts.
I don’t understand the technical aspects of computer protocols, but I want to know, in layman’s terms, whether the opening of boundary nodes as research and development progresses will allow ordinary users to independently install them in their own homes, acting as a kind of relay and encryption, similar to VPNs, enabling users like us who are blocked by the GFW to access and reconnect to the global internet through these nodes? This function is crucial for us, but I don’t know if this VPN-like feature can be achieved through the opening of boundary nodes on the roadmap.
Thank you all for answering my questions.
