Where is the Replacement for the JAP Anon-Proxy?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @04:30PM from the for-anonymous-cowards-everywhere dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Now that it has been a month since the University of Dresden's Java Anonymous Proxy was back-doored via court order, what is the status of forked projects? Have any universities or individuals in countries with more respect for freedom taken the initiative to provide a truly anonymous alternative? Could a Freenet/P2P type system, with plausible deniability, be developed from the remnants of the JAP program? I would be willing to operate a mix if I could restrict the bandwidth usage and use a SOCKS proxy for my P2P apps. Could a phoenix rise from the ashes of JAP which delivered a 1-2 punch to censorship and media conglomerate entrapment?"

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Re:Why? by stevey · 2003-09-18 00:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because Freenet is not something that I'm going to install a JDK for?

It's a lovely idea, and I can see the attraction of using a non-buffer-overflow language with built in networking primitives and threading - but Java?

If it were Python/Perl/Ruby even I'd be happy - but my small headless box with all my files on it just isn't going to get Java on it.