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Old 11-05-2008, 23:16   #6341
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by BadPhormula View Post
You don't have to do that Florence. Technology is available to us all, and that means we can build our own Internet without wiretap surveillance. It's just a network and that means we can build our own world wide interconnected network. All you need are a few determined people and some routing gear. The wires can be optical, RF wireless, fibre, copper, satellite... How do you think Africa is going to have widespread internet? through homebrew mesh networks.

Of course a simpler network that uses the existing system (while we build a new one) is the TOR network. We need more people willing to become 'exit nodes'.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29 [ LINK ]

http://www.torproject.org/ [ LINK ]
Tor is not the be all and end all of security. There have already been cases in the US and Germany where exit nodes were forced to give up their logs to the authorities.

The danger of tor is most of the exit nodes are out of UK jurisdiction and therefore subject to different laws. And of course government agencies and commercial ventures can easily setup exit nodes without your knowledge.

Tor also causes significant latency on your connection (and I mean significant) so it is not ideal under any circumstances. Furthermore wtf should we have to jump into sneakernets just to ensure our privacy, the law and our rights under those laws are supposed to do that.

Instead of jumping to Tor people should be fighting the principles of privacy erosion. I have been working on some stuff over the past couple of days which I can't disclose as of yet but hopefully early next week I should have some pretty big news from a publicity standpoint.

Alexander Hanff

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Originally Posted by BadPhormula View Post
It's quite easy really. Using existing PSTN phonelines, this is how the Internet started. A 56K modem is connected to the telephone line and a Linux server is setup with mgetty and pppd. IP over serial cable was what we used before broadband! To be an Internet provider all you need are a bank of telephone lines a number of servers and a thicker/faster cable to connect to the next upsteam Internet provider. And with the LLU (local loop unbundling) you to can become a communications provider.
Running a VPN based darknet on your existing broadband service is far easier and far cheaper, I have run several in the past with full domain name resolution and custom TLDs. But as I said above, we should not have to resort to sneakernets or darknets in order to be able to communicate "freely" (as in liberty not beer), by going underground all we do is turn our backs on the problem instead of fixing it.

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