"The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked."
"PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia) and FireFox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to
circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens."
"HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites."
"Open Observatory of Network Interference
A free software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet"