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ZeroKnowledge's Freedom Server Code Available
hey writes: "The Register reports that
Zero Knowledge's Freedom Network source code is now available." This seems to be part of CodeCon, which is now underway in San Francisco. You can't use the code for commercial gain, but I could see a non-profit network springing up...
This is the FP! Yeah!
aihaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fp?!?!?
Zero Knowledge... sounds a lot like me....
gayness popping up!
fp
Fuck Yeah!
Proof once again that there can be freedom in a terrorism-obsessed world, so long as nobody has to take the blame for it.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
Wasn't it available a long time ago..? Or was that just the binary?
Everytime they post a story that is a repeat, or attempt to mislead the public about the significance of the story, or post one which is utterly assinine you have to take a drink? I figure we'll all be drunk by noon...
Is someone a couple days late?
Or is the idea that people would use ZKS to send anonymous and untraceable Valentines?
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Sorry, but despite the article it appears terrorism is once again eliminating freedoms internally. I used this service for a long time to dodge predatory advertisers and to avoid unsolicited contact. While Sep. 11th needs to be remembered vividly, people also need to remember that the basis of the American Constitution is that no external threat can strip one of their freedoms. This has been sadly missing of late but please don't forget that the precepts of democracy are Freedom, Tolerance, and and Equality. None can be abandoned due to an attack, in fact they are more sacred than ever...
While I'm glad to see the source is out for download now, it would have been nice to see it a long time ago. It would be really neat if online services shared their code with a "you can look, and play for yourself, but don't try to make money" sort of license. Not only would it improve the service (because of feedback) but also help others to implement a similar service as a custom solution.
I wish I had some examples.
Fuck em if they can't take a joke. Montreal, boot those asswipes out. Sexah French girls, invite me into your beds.
Perfect. Now if I can just get this up and running, I can anonymously ask Kathleen to marry me. 'Taco won't have a clue who's stealing his girl! Bwaahahahah.
- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? - Steven Wright
OK, it is cool that Zero Knowledge is making this available. But what are the "traditional magic words"? And how would that work, anyway, with PGP? A passphrase usually unlocks only a private key, which, erm, we don't have, as far as I know.
River Phoenix? Open Sesame Street?
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I don't want to rule the world... I just want to be in charge of mayonnaise.
Does this mean that trolls can prevent being "timed out"?
Behead me if you will, but people: Futurama sucks.
http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ A free, fast, anonymous web proxy. Pretty neat.
CodeCon's being held at Jamie Zawinski's (JWZ's) club, the DNA Lounge, in case you were curious.
Because I'm certain there are lots of volunteers out there that want to donate their bandwidth to the cause of having their door kicked down and family forced face down on the floor at gunpoint because someone used their Freedom server to threaten the POTUS, exchange kiddie porn with an FBI agent, or (horror of horrors) download a non-rights-managed piece of music and that person was the lucky person to be the exit server for the traffic.
These servers simply cannot be run successfully by individuals with the potential legal problems of relatively honest use, much less malicious use. And after 9/11, I doubt very many ISPs would be able to weather the storm, either.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Time to set up a distributed code tarball cracker? :)
--joshua
Fags have not hidden the fact that they target children (e.g., in
...that federal, state, and local governments and
schools, boy scouts, girl scouts, etc.). The reason is simple: they
want to teach children, at a young age, that it is OK to be gay; that
there is nothing wrong with homosexuality as an innocent, alterate
lifestyle; that people who engage in sodomy are to be respected in a
"multi-cultural" and "diverse" sense. There is no better place to do
this than in schools. If they can help raise a new generation of
children who have respect for different sexual orientations, then,
they think, their lives will be easier. If they can convince
impressionable children that sodomy is perfectly normal and natural,
they will no longer have to suffer the stigma of being homosexual. Of
course, fags can't have children through their perverted activity, so
they must target the children of other people. Whether they recruit a
child to that lifestyle (through the guise of helping "questioning
youth"), or whether they recruit a child to the ranks of those who
believe that sodomy is a normal thing to do, they are just as guilty.
To accomplish the goal of instilling "it's OK to be gay" into the
nation's youth, fags believe that homosexuality should be discussed
starting in grade school. Of course, nothing bad should be said about
it. Instead, it should be portrayed as "just another lifestyle."
Children should see men with men, and women with women, and think
that that is a good thing. In California, new guidelines are being put
in place to teach children about "alternative sexual lifestyles." In
the United Kingdom, a teaching guide called "A Whole Approach to Sex
Education" presents techniques for teachers to "discuss with children
as young as 4, homosexuality and anal sex." In America, the recent
film "That's a Family!," which targets children beginning at age 8,
includes several children speaking about their "moms" or their
"dads." One girl says, "My moms, Angie and Lee, are lesbians. That
means they only like men for friends and they want to be in a
relationship with other women." Another says, "My dads are gay, and
gay means when two men or two women love each other. It's sort of just
like having a mom and dad who love each other. It's just that it's a
man and a man or a woman and a woman." The director of the film said,
"There is an enormous amount of education that needs to be done with
kids so that they come to understand that gay is not a bad word but is
actually an adjective that describes how real people live and how
real people in their school communities live."
Later on, as children begin taking sex ed classes, fags want
homosexual sex to be discussed. The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education
Network has been at the foundation of this kind of perversion. The
Washington Times (12/4/2000) had this to say: "The influence of GLSEN
on public schools can be seen in the San Francisco Unified School
Distrist, which is considering several lesson plans in which
homosexuality and tolerance are the subjects. One lesson plan, titled
'Jesse's Dream Skirt,' centers on a 'boy who likes to do things
differently than most other boys.' Questions following the story
include: 'Do you think Jesse wants to be a girl?' Karen Holgate of
the conservative watchdog group Capitol Research Institute says these
lesson plans teach children that if their parents disagree with
homosexuality, they're 'homophobes.' During a 'youth-only, ages
14-21,' workshop titled 'What They Didn't Tell You About Queer Sex
and Sexuality in Health Class,' students were taught sexually explicit
techniques. 'Children are being victimized by these groups, and their
parents don't even know it,'says Parents Rights Coalition's Brian
Camenker." The National Education Association (NEA) has the
following resolutions for the 2000-2001 school year. Notice that not
only do they want to portray fags as respectable people (as if
engaging in sodomy deems you worthy of respect), but they encourage
the government to pass laws making "verbal violence" illegal. That
means that if you believe and say "God hates fags," that should be a
crime. Discrimination and stereotyping based on...sexual orientation
must be eliminated." "(Public school) plans, activities, and programs
must -- Increase respect, understanding, acceptance, and sensitivity
toward...gays and lesbians." "Similarities and differences
among...sexual orientation...form the fabric of a society." "(NEA)
urges that formal sex education should include...respect for
individual differences...Such programs should include information
on...diversity of sexual orientation...incest...and problems
associated with pre-teen and teenage pregnancies." "(NEA) deplores
prejudice based on...sexual orientation." "(NEA) is committed to
elimination of discrimination based on...sexual orientation." "(NEA)
believes that...verbal violence against...sexual orientation...is
deplorable...and
community groups must oppose and eliminate hate-motivated (verbal)
violence." We encourage you to take a look at the NEA and GLSEN web
sites. If you are worried about fag influence on your children in
school, make sure you contact the schools about it, and make sure your
children are well-versed in the Bible. Otherwise, you're to blame.
Anyone have another mirror which we could slashdot? this one is chirping on at a great 1k/s :)
Both the client and server source for Freedom 2.1 have been available under GPL at http://opensource.zeroknowledge.com for about a year and a half. This is the heavy-duty IP anonymizing network that was shut down in September.
I have no clue what this story is talking about unless it's the Freedom 3 browser anonymizing. The story doesn't claim it's being open-sourced, either, and I can't imagine why it would be.
Another strange one from the Register.
--rgb
has anyone noticed that lately, all of the free browsing services have disappeared?
-anonymizer.com no longer lets you view half the pages unless you buy their premium service
-safeweb.com, which used to be the best anon browsing service, stopped providing this
-noproxy.com / silentsurf.com now only has a commercial service
-megaproxy.com has been gone for at least a week now
what's up with this? does anyone know of any good free browsing systems (read: no free reg. req., this defeats the purpose of anonymity!) that still exist?
Russian Air Force Chief Says
Official 9-11 Story Impossible
[Posted 13 September 2001]
As one considers the terrible events of Sept. 11 and observes U.S. media reaction, so pervasive and consistently military that it appears choreographed, doubts increase. The following is from pravda.ru, a Russian language Website (politically centrist, nationalist). In some places the English translation is confusing, so we added alternate phrasing in brackets.
- Jared Israel
[Start report from Russia] "Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday." This was said by the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, Anatoli Kornukov. "We had such facts [i.e., events or incidents] too", - said the general straightforwardly. Kornukov did not specify what happened in Russia and when and to what extent it resembled the events in the US. He did not advise what was the end of air terrorists' attempts either.
But the fact the general said that means a lot. As it turns out the way the terrorists acted in America is not unique. The notification and control system for the air transport in Russia does not allow uncontrolled flights and leads to immediate reaction of the anti-missile defense, Kornukov said. "As soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a minute we are all up," - said the general. [End report from Russia.]
Pasted from: The Emperor's New Clothes
I am into the copy and paste.
Learning to use the traditional remailer network takes some time and effort. And this time and effort pays off handsomely by providing the user with a highly secure method to communicate privately and anonymously. But many privacy-minded folks (and their ranks are increasing daily!) are looking for an easier and less time-intensive approach. Some are even willing to pay for it. To satisfy this niche there have arrived many new products and services that provide various combinations of anonymous email, newsgroup posting and Web-surfing with varying degrees of anonymity.
I have provided URLs for some of these services below. I have categorized them into two groups: free of charge and fee-based. Noteworthy amongst these is the fee-based Freedom Software by the Montreal-based Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS). Launched in December 1999, Freedom is a 'privacy system' not unlike the traditional remailer network . It allows users to send email, post to newsgroups, chat and surf the Web in total privacy without having to trust third parties with their personal information. Freedom users create multiple digital identities - "nyms" - with which their online activities are associated. All data packets Freedom users send are encrypted and routed through a global privacy infrastructure called the Freedom Network, which is hosted by participating ISPs and other independent server operators. A 30-day free trial is available.
The package has been criticized <http://cryptome.org/zks-v-tcm.htm> for not being open-source. But that is changing. The source code of the kernel module of the Linux version of Freedom <http://opensource.zeroknowledge.com/> has been released; and the release of the Windows version source code is "coming soon."
Free of Charge
GILC Web-Based Remailer <http://www.gilc.org/speech/anonymous/remailer. html>
Hushmail <http://www.hushmail.com>
Safeweb <http://www.safeweb.com>
Zixmail <http://www.zixmail.com>
Anonymouse <http://anonymouse.is4u.de/>
COTSE <http://www.cotse.com/home.html>
Somebody.net <http://somebody.net/>
ANON.XG.NU's Web-Based Remailer <http://anon.xg.nu/remailer.html>
Chicago <http://xenophon.r0x.net/cgi-bin/mixnews-user.c gi>
Fee-Based
ZKS Freedom <http://www.freedom.net>
SkuzNET's The Internet Mail Network <http://www.theinternet.cc/ http://www.mailanon. com/>
IDcide <http://www.idcide.com>
--Metrollica
Canadians don't know shit
We need someone to host an exit server at HavenCo!
you see canadianess popping up, which is far worse.
Cut and paste troll - as most of Metrollica's comments are. This one is from the remailer FAQ.
Yes, moderator, someone with troll in their name is probably a troll. Trolls don't deserve +1 bonuses.
Who wants to bet he copied and pasted that from somewhere? In fact, I never even read the article and it seems clear to me its fraudulent.
Sheesh. Check some BIOs out, people:
"Grant me the authority to suppress the arguments that I cannot win, the audacity to argue the points that I think I can win, and the trollishness to manipulate information so that no one can tell the difference"
Everybody poops!
Guido69: Perfect. Now if I can just get this up and running, I can anonymously ask Kathleen to marry me. 'Taco won't have a clue who's stealing his girl! Bwaahahahah.
Perfect? Hardly. In the unlikely event that she decides to accept she won't know who to accept.
Unless of course she saw your post...unless of course he also saw your post...
Anonymity is tricky, yes?
-- MarkusQ
The article saith, The main tarballs is a 12.5MB download, PGP encrypted with the "traditional magic words" (one of which is a big bird). OK, it is cool that Zero Knowledge is making this available. But what are the "traditional magic words"? And how would that work, anyway, with PGP? A passphrase usually unlocks only a private key, which, erm, we don't have, as far as I know. River Phoenix? Open Sesame Street?
Alan Thicke's Journal
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In the unlikely event that she decides to accept she won't know who to accept.
What about PGP? All he has to do is generate a key pair - and sign the proposal with it.. if she accepts, he can prove his identity then!
Of course one has to ask oneself this question:
If you met a woman who accepted the proposal from an anonymous stranger, would you WANT to marry her?
Downloading the code now... at a whopping .8 k/s.
'sokay. I'll just let the download run all night and maybe I'll have a whole tarball in the morning. If not, I'll try again and grab it off one of the mirrors that will inevitably spring up.
What I'd really like to see come out of this, however, are 'userland' Win32 and MacOS implimentations ala 'Triangle Boy'.
I'm simply not much of a coder, or I would spend time on this, since I think it's such an important project.
Make this usuable for both experienced and inexperienced admins, and you have done a great deal for privacy and freedom.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
You can't use the code for commercial gain, but I could see a non-profit network springing up...
Why is this even on slashdot?! The producer of this code is releasing it under a "non free" license.
what happened to the code posting? i accessed the posting a couple of hours ago and started a download... i had been downloading for around 2.5 hours, and the transfer stalled... i decided to check the website, and -- ITS GONE!
does anyone know what happened? i keep getting a 404... its still stalling frequently, as well... perhaps getting slashdotted was more than they bargained for... in any case, id like to know the story behind it...
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
weird... now its back... did anyone else have this problem?
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
Either Bram or Len abused the hosting which was provided to codecon on the basis of "information about CodeCon, text-only" to host large files of non-open-source software. I have removed the files, please get them from a mirror.
Anyone who gets free service and then abuses the terms of service under which that service is provided really has little right to complain when their access is permanently deleted.
Paying customers are certainly welcome to use their full available bandwidth. CodeCon is hosted for free, as it was originally an idea a few of us on OPN were discussing and originally organizing.
This is the software for the Freedom server. To make it into a useful system, people need to coordinate to run the servers as part of an interconnected network. There needs to be some centralized place where the client software can locate lists of servers in order to choose its routes.
And speaking of the client, has its code ever been released? I know at one point they did release code for a Linux client, but what about Windows?
Freedom also used a "Nym" concept where customers paid for Nyms. When you browsed on the net or sent email through a chain of Freedom servers, the last server in the chain learned your Nym (but not your true identity). Then if you had misused the service, your Nym could be cancelled. This provided some protection against servers in the network, because users would not want to lose Nyms, as they cost real money.
In an open source Freedom network, what would replace the Nym concept? Would server operators no longer have this protection, so that spam or hacking could go through their systems and there is no way to stop the people involved, who are hidden at the other end of a chain of Freedom servers? Or would they coordinate to set up a centralized Nym server and perhaps even require a monetary donation to purchase a Nym, in order to discourage abuse?
Many questions remain to be resolved before even this generous release of source code can replace the service formerly offered by ZKS.
This software, as a peer-to-peer network, could be everything we dream of. Since individuals would use each-others' IP addresses, the network would be even more anonymous than the old network. It would have to chop the packets into very small pieces, though, and send them on twisted routes to avoid individuals from collecting credit card, and other sensitive data.
Those things are generally the scummiest things out there. Some fuck gets a government grant to "help people" with some thing, say $500,000 for a three year project, the main scurve pays himself $100,000 a year out of that money leaving $200,000 left. Enough for office rent, pseudo-advertising (aka CYA money), a couple computers, and probably a bunch of coke in the meantime.
:)
If I ever license anything like that, it's going to exclude both corporate and little scum-sucking "legally" not for profit "organizations" as well. Only truly for "no gain usage"
Maybe if they share the coke...
The obvious magic word to me is:
XYZZY
(The world spins around, and you find ourself in front of small house, there are pgp keys and a lantern on the ground by your feet)
ttyl
Farrell
CAN-CON 2019 - Ottawa's only book oriented Science Fiction Convention! October 18-20, Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Canada h
did anyone get the file and have it mirrored?
oh where oh where will the mirrors be!
Wrong, wrong wrong. What killed Freedom was that it was a horribly designed client application. I sent them money to register it and bought a tee shirt besides because I liked what they were trying to do, but their implementation was simply horrible. Rather than allow you to anonymize HTTP, SMTP, and POP and those alone, they attempted to intercept and proxy with encryption EVERY SINGLE CONNECTION on your machine. Jesus H. Obviously, Freedom broke a number of protocols that it had no clue about, and utterly demolished performance for things that one wouldn't want anonymized, such as SSH connections from your own machines to your own machines.
ZeroKnowledge also made their product unusable by emitting far too many forced updates without even bothering with authentication. You'd think that people who had better be experts in privacy and security would know better, but I guess not. It's bad enough to have your client stop working every four weeks and force you to reinstall, but to force you to go download an unsigned, unauthenticated binary and install it to update the Freedom client was ridiculous. Six weeks after I bought the thing, I knew the company wasn't going to make it because their demo client wouldn't be able to gain a foothold with the proxy design and constant update requirements.
It sucks too, because they came really close. They had smart network coders there and they knew enough about Microsoft network stacks to do some cool things. If they'd have just stuck to what 90% wants and done that well, they'd have gotten the customer base they needed *and* not stepped into the infinite-number-of-protocols developer resource tarpit.
This is great - we don't need any demi-paranoid analysis to acknowledge that there are countries where the internet is censored in some way and where triangle + freedom create a relitavely safe way to exchange music. I mean ideas. either.
.gov site where it's published.
So A) howabout someone link to an explanation of how to set up a server and point triangle clients to you and
B) let's hear a little enthusiasm for freedom on the web - I recently searched, for example on "constitution united states" and found 2 sites willing to sell me 'chapters' of the constitution before I found the
What's whrong with us, it seems like in some ways the internet has lost content since 1995 (when the gutenberg project was in full swing, muds and bulliten boards were all around and the microsoft EULA was, well, something no one read and it didn't matter.
*sight*
closed minded is as closed minded does
Fact is, the exit server is the one where the rubber hits the road--the one where from which the threating emails are being sent, the one trying the stack smashing on web pages, the one trying to telnet to dockmaster.nsa.mil.
Fact is, I'd admire anyone taking the risks associated with that--but only someone either wealthy enough to afford a bevy of lawyers to assert his rights or with a serious wish to see the prison system from the inside would run one of these and make it available to all comers.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
This had better hit metamod soon.
+4 for a troll copied from a website, no doubt? Christ, are you people blind?
Idiots, the lot of you moderators, plain dumb idiots.
CodeCon is being broadcast live from the DNA Lounge over streaming video.
They just announced Ryan at HavenCo has changed the password to the codecon.org server and conference organizers can no longer log in. They have setup a New Server for CodeCon which has updated info on the conference.
The source to the Freedom Network servers linked from this new server is now at Linux Fund. Yeah!
Clicking on the "encrypted source tarball" link gets me a "file not found." Has it been removed? Any mirrors?
Those interested should sign on to the announcement mailing list, at:
http://tweakdom.sourceforge.net
--Will