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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. License to print money by Tommy+Bologna · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he pulls this off, he will be very well off. I suspect it will take the dinosaur telcos eons before they understand how to adjust, and by then it just may be too late.

    1. Re:License to print money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Probably more like an invitation for an FBI raid.

    2. Re:License to print money by CodeHxr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If they* don't just pass a law declaring that this type of operation is illegal.

      (* they == anyone with the power [directly or otherwise] to enact/enable such a law)

    3. Re:License to print money by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If he pulls this off, expect tougher laws on data collection requirements for ISPs.

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    4. Re:License to print money by demonbug · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm trying to figure this post out - did you put it up ironically, like, "Hey, look how completely uninformed this Russian guy is about the U.S., isn't this funny?" Or were you actually serious? The cluelessness meter is off the charts, but I can't tell if it is a joke or not...

    5. Re:License to print money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here is what you want to read.
      http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s1738

      Sec. 501. Reporting requirements of electronic communication service providers and remote computing service providers.
      To
      save you time - Nowhere does it claim they HAVE to maintain certain records or monitor etc... in fact they explicitly state that, however once asked for information they do have to provide information they do have and such requests are to handled as a request to preserve records (that do exist at the time of receipt).

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

    Shhh, we don't talk about Fight Club.

  3. Re:TFS is confusing. by cdrguru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Far closer to the idea that he has 100 customers but needs 10,000 to fund the operations. Can something like this ever get enough customers to operate? Not if they charge a penny more than a non-privacy protecting ISP - it simply isn't a priority for most people. A few, yes, and that is all the customers something like this would ever have.

    Far too few to make a go of it. No reason for anyone to attack it - it will die of lack of interest.

  4. 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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