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MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the can't-we-just-use-trolls? dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that MIT researchers "created an alternative to Tor, a network messaging system called Vuvuzela that pollutes the network with dummy data so the NSA won't know who's talking to who." Initial tests show the systems overhead adding a 44-second delay, but the network can work fine and preserve anonymity even it has more than 50% of servers compromised.

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  1. Really new ?!? by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 4, Funny

    > pollutes the network with dummy data
    probably not so different from internet as we know it, isn't it ?!?

  2. Re:Great, just what we need! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need something like this, something P2P, that sends out garbage data

    We have this already, it's called APK.