Philipp Winter on using ordinary internet users as a censorship circumvention proxy

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Philipp Winter is an internet data scientist at Caida, which is a research center at UC San Diego.

His research interests revolve around computer networks and security; in particular applied cryptography, anonymity networks, and Internet measurement.

You can find out more about Philipp Winter on his personal website at nymity.ch or via his Twitter account @__phw.

Questions

Is it okay to (ab)use people's systems for censorship circumvention (or other laudable causes) without their consent?

What is the concept behind Snowflake?