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EFF Promotes Freenet-like System Tor

Posted by timothy on from the god-of-tunder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just announced that it has become a financial sponsor of Tor, an open-source project to help people 'engage in anonymous communication online.' It sounds like a simpler version of Freenet, e.g. 'a network-within-a-network that protects communication from ... traffic analysis.' Like Freenet, the source-code is freely available and binaries exist for Windows, Linux, etc." Read on for more details.

The submitter continues "It also allows you to install Tor-aware apps, such as an HTTP proxy (for private browsing), or maybe private P2P? Unlike Freenet, it doesn't use massive encryption (as far as I can tell) and relies more on something called onion routing to randomly bounce requests between other Tor proxies, thus obfuscating the IP of the original client. So it allows you to browse regular Internet sites! Maybe it should be considered more of an 'open-source' Anonymizer? But I don't know if it's actually Open Source - you can download the source (and compile it yourself) but I don't know if the developers are letting anyone else touch their code. They are, however, looking for contributors and other forms of help. And, finally, they're hoping people will start running Tor servers!" It's open source, however contributions are handled.

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  1. Call me at 0.5.0.0 or so by CmdrTaco+(troll) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have a little policy against using any software that is version 0.0.anything.

    --

    I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
  2. pros and cons by mslinux · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm all about privacy on line and initially, this sounded like a good idea to me. But then I thought about the religious terrorists of the world. You know, the ones who fly planes into buildings and blow up abortion clinics... kill children in schools in Russia, etc.

    Fanatical religious terrorists of all kinds (Christian, Muslim, Jewish... but mostly Muslims) will take advantage of technology like this and I don't think I want to assist them in carry out their evil deeds against the normal people of the world.

  3. Fro5t pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    play areac Try not The pro6ect to

  4. I R KOREA KEKEKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Kill all Muslims.

  5. YRO = PIRACY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I swear to God that nearly every article filed under YRO is about some new hip flavor of software that will, inevitably, be used to unlawfully distribute intellectual property.

    Maybe it's no conincidence that PRIVACY and PIRACY are spelled very similarly. Or is it a CONSPIRACY? Touché.

  6. Re:EFF makes me happy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... and you post THAT as an AC?

    Come on man, grow up. Pedophiles don't abuse children.. They just have sex with them. That's a different thing entirely.