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Where is the Replacement for the JAP Anon-Proxy?
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?"
Why create another Freenet?
ATM, the JAP programs's Crime Detection Feature has been removed. German Police are appealing the isuue, but it is currently secure.
You're saying that you want to create a system to achieve one specific goal, but the design should include a way for you to claim that you never intended it to be used in that way.
Now I realise that you're not talking about piracy, but this is exactly the mentality that has caused a lot of good folk (myself included) to lose sympathy for *any* p2p system that is used for piracy. The dishonesty is insulting. I'd have much more respect for a company/organisation that set up a "pro-piracy" p2p system and then defended its use for piracy. Sure they'd lose, but at least they'd have a shred of dignity in doing so.
Picture some guy in a repressive third-world country, standing outside a police station, lobbing grenades in and spraying the place with machine gun fire. Then when the cops come running out he hides the gun behind his back and shouts "It wasn't me! The guy who did it ran away!". That guy's face ain't going on no t-shirt. But analogically, that's not a million miles away from what p2p companies are doing with da system and eeeevil copyright holders, and some people hold them up as modern heroes.
What I don't understand about JAP is why they just don't block the websites that the German law inforcers demand access to.
This way they wouldn't compromise the base idea of their system and they wouldn't aid criminal activity. Most countries' legal system doesn't allow helping criminal activity, but cannot force to cooperate fighting it either!
I for one would certainly trust this way much better...
Any thoughts?
Chris.---
http://www.vandenberghe.org/chris
what i'd like to see is a freenet kind of Domain Name Service. a P2P typ Domain Name service. this would be especially usefull for user with a dial-up connecton. one could have a domain name (typ: anything goes) but not be online all the time. also it would be up to the user to name his domain and one would not be restricted to .gov .edu. .com .org .net etc endings. also it would be free and not have to pay anybody. i could run apache and/or some FTP demon and/or IRCserver and/or etc. locally for webpages or sharing files, etc.
the name.ip.mapping.file would be distributed over the "virtual" network of user running a TINY client-server progi. of course the file is encrypted, dummy!
"i'll start programming right away, sir!"
p.s. it seems all the new "technology" for the internet that give power to the user (e.g. are decentralised) take off like a rocket.