Not something you see often nowadays, what with patents and copyrights being thrown back and forth in endless litigation and cutthroat corporate espionage.
That said, these guys are pretty awesome for doing that. In a way it lets us know they actually care about the improvement of the industry, even if they couldn't support Mono themselves. Round of applause ol' gents.
Somehow, I think nesting myself (needle) in a haystack (Tor network) would be safer than routing through set stations.
At the end of the day, this sounds like dumbing down the tools we already have so common users can take advantage of them without learning the procedures. I wouldn't normally have a problem with protecting Anonymity, but I think in this case I'm going to say no. ISPs aren't going to bother with this, especially in countries and areas where governments have complete control over such matters.
Besides, even if the ISPs did bother to set these up, the government would likely find a way to back-door this kind of service anyways. (re: PROTECT-IP act)
Personally, I'll stick to the time tested plan of Chinese VPN + SSH and/or Tor. At the end of the day, you're better off learning these sorts of things and recognizing the amount of protection you ACTUALLY have, rather than assuming you're invincible. It's a good idea, I just doubt the implementation will match the drawing board.
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Not something you see often nowadays, what with patents and copyrights being thrown back and forth in endless litigation and cutthroat corporate espionage.
That said, these guys are pretty awesome for doing that. In a way it lets us know they actually care about the improvement of the industry, even if they couldn't support Mono themselves. Round of applause ol' gents.
Somehow, I think nesting myself (needle) in a haystack (Tor network) would be safer than routing through set stations. At the end of the day, this sounds like dumbing down the tools we already have so common users can take advantage of them without learning the procedures. I wouldn't normally have a problem with protecting Anonymity, but I think in this case I'm going to say no. ISPs aren't going to bother with this, especially in countries and areas where governments have complete control over such matters. Besides, even if the ISPs did bother to set these up, the government would likely find a way to back-door this kind of service anyways. (re: PROTECT-IP act) Personally, I'll stick to the time tested plan of Chinese VPN + SSH and/or Tor. At the end of the day, you're better off learning these sorts of things and recognizing the amount of protection you ACTUALLY have, rather than assuming you're invincible. It's a good idea, I just doubt the implementation will match the drawing board.