Searching about it in Wikipedia reminded me of two additional P2P Free Software anonymity "frameworks" (in lack of a better word):
Freenet (even mentioned in the Wikipedia article about anoNet as similar to it) and GNUnet.
Personally I don't have much experience with them, so if someone can give a more elaborate account of their relative weaknesses and advantages it would be nice...
The TorFAQ has this to say about Freenet relative to Tor:
Tor and Freenet work on different levels: Tor is about transport, and Freenet is about storage/retrieval. So it would make perfect sense (assuming we become happy with the scalability and decentralization properties) to use Tor to get anonymous transport between Freenet nodes.
In fact, because Freenet aims to provide anonymity in the sense of deniability ("you know I was the one who gave you that file, but you can't prove I am the original author"), Tor's notion of anonymity ("you can't find my location") is complementary.
What I don't understand is why an alternative 'internet' has been setup yet, using encrypted/disguised routes to the western world in a P2P fashion.
Assuming that by "alternative" you mean an alternative method and not a whole alternative internet (different websites, etc.), Tor is pretty much what you describe (although not 100% p2p - it is more a seperate client-server(s) method).
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Depending on the price tag, it might be good as an e-book reader + occasional web surfing (if includes wifi).
1983+21 is the year of the first dupe...
Like mac box vs beige intel isn't more important!
oh wait...
"Mr. President, we must not allow a Quad-Core gap!!"
Searching about it in Wikipedia reminded me of two additional P2P Free Software anonymity "frameworks" (in lack of a better word):
Freenet (even mentioned in the Wikipedia article about anoNet as similar to it) and GNUnet.
Personally I don't have much experience with them, so if someone can give a more elaborate account of their relative weaknesses and advantages it would be nice...
The TorFAQ has this to say about Freenet relative to Tor:
Tor and Freenet work on different levels: Tor is about transport, and Freenet is about storage/retrieval. So it would make perfect sense (assuming we become happy with the scalability and decentralization properties) to use Tor to get anonymous transport between Freenet nodes. In fact, because Freenet aims to provide anonymity in the sense of deniability ("you know I was the one who gave you that file, but you can't prove I am the original author"), Tor's notion of anonymity ("you can't find my location") is complementary.
What I don't understand is why an alternative 'internet' has been setup yet, using encrypted/disguised routes to the western world in a P2P fashion. Assuming that by "alternative" you mean an alternative method and not a whole alternative internet (different websites, etc.), Tor is pretty much what you describe (although not 100% p2p - it is more a seperate client-server(s) method).