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Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy
CSEMike writes "Currently popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. Instead of communicating directly, sharing in OneSwarm is friend-to-friend; senders and receivers exchange data using multiple intermediaries in an overlay mesh. OneSwarm is built on (and backwards compatible with) BitTorrent, but includes numerous extensions to improve privacy while providing good performance: point-to-point encryption using SSL, source-address rewriting, and multi-path and multi-source downloading. Clients and source are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows."
Please explain.
If "Joe" in Virginia and "Mike" in California each have a copy of The Big Bang Theory's latest episode, I use Utorrent to directly connect to their IP address and start downloading pieces. How does OneSwarm work differently to get this video over to my machine?
There, saved you from ridicule. You owe me!
I always thought that was Benjamin Franklin.
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Don't be silly. Why would the internet interpret Benjamin Franklin as damage?
No, the internet interprets censorship as Ben Franklin and routes around him.
...was that of a few University of Washington researchers being escorted into the back of an unmarked van.
And a big "stop it, jackass" right back at you. Don't tell people what anonymous expression can or cannot consist of. I express myself 4.7 GB at a time.
Imagine you're sued by MAFFIA (oh gosh!) and they accuse you of downloading their newest movie.
What if you say: "I didn't know this was copyrighted, I thought it was a special promotion from my favorite MAFFIA label! Can you prove it wasn't YOU who started spreading the movie and lured me into this trap just to get sued?"