[e-privacy] JAP-anonimato p2p dalla gente di an.on

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22.07.2005 14:29
Peer-to-peer anonymizer

The developers of the AN.ON Project of the TU Dresden [Technical
University Dresden], which is cooperating closely with the
Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein [State Center for
Data Protection, Schleswig-Holstein] (ULD), have completed a new
version their program JAP. JAP is a client program for a network run
by the AN.ON Project, which network is designed to allow users to surf
anonymously.

In the past the operators of AN.ON have engaged in the odd scuffle
with investigating authorities, who would like to see the service
switched off altogether. The new JAP version has a kind of
peer-to-peer technology built into it. Users of the current software
release will now be able to make part of the bandwidth of their
anonymous Internet connection available to other Internet surfers.
They will thereby be offering independent access points to the
Internet - and be contributing, the programmers hope, to the freedom
of the World Wide Web.

Users of the likewise popular anonymzing service TOR of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation will now also be able to use JAP as access
software. To do so they have to enter JAP as (socks) proxy in the
application to be anonymized. Users of older versions of JAP will have
to switch to the current release 00.05.001 as the older versions will
in future no longer be supported. (Robert W. Smith) / (jk/c't) 

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/61985


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