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Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning

Posted by samzenpus on from the secret-surfing dept.

h00manist writes "Nicholas Merrill ran a New York based ISP and got tired of federal 'information requests.' He is now planning an ISP which would be built from the ground up for privacy. Everything encrypted, maximum technical and legal resistance to information requests. Merrill has formed an advisory board with members including Sascha Meinrath from the New America Foundation; former NSA technical director Brian Snow; and Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project. Kickstarter-like IndieGoGo has a project page."

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  1. TFS is confusing. by idontgno · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nicholas Merrill ran a New York based ISP and got tired of federal 'information requests'....maximum technical and legal resistance to information requests.

    He's tired of fighting The Man, so he's going to set up a new ISP which will let him fight The Man even more? That doesn't even begin to approach making sense. Is this like Fight Club or something?

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    1. Re:TFS is confusing. by Tommy+Bologna · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shhh, we don't talk about Fight Club.

    2. Re:TFS is confusing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You are missing the obvious business model where he signs up a bunch of pedos/terrorists/ron paul supporters and then sells the info to the feds.

    3. Re:TFS is confusing. by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shhh, we don't talk about Fight Club.

      I thought that was Usenet...

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  2. Fishy by Hentes · · Score: 4, Funny

    former NSA technical director Brian Snow

    It's a trap!

  3. Re:Why do you need an ISP to do this? by Ihmhi · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I were REALLY paranoid, I would get to some place where no one else can see what's going on, inside a Faraday cage, with the person I want to communicate with, in a sound-proofed booth

    Ooh, sounds good! Then maybe if the feds come after you, you can detonate pre-installed C4 and blow up the factory that was your hideout because Will Smith made a phone call. Then Will Smith says "AW HELL NAW" and shoots a dude with a shotgun, and you drive away over some train tracks.

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