Where is the Replacement for the JAP Anon-Proxy? 28
An anonymous reader asks: "Now that it has been a month since the University of Dresden's Java Anonymous Proxy was back-doored via court order, what is the status of forked projects? Have any universities or individuals in countries with more respect for freedom taken the initiative to provide a truly anonymous alternative? Could a Freenet/P2P type system, with plausible deniability, be developed from the remnants of the JAP program? I would be willing to operate a mix if I could restrict the bandwidth usage and use a SOCKS proxy for my P2P apps. Could a phoenix rise from the ashes of JAP which delivered a 1-2 punch to censorship and media conglomerate entrapment?"
Why? (Score:2, Interesting)
cross-compile using GCJ? (Score:2)
JAP isn't back-doored (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:JAP isn't back-doored (Score:4, Insightful)
NOTHING against the developers mind you!
Re:JAP isn't back-doored (Score:2, Informative)
Says who? AN.ON, the same folks who neglected to mention that the Crime Detection Feature was there to begin with (presumably due to German law prohibiting discussion of current proceedings), but readily admitted to it when someone else found it? Or are we to believe the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation were they to claim that JAP is no longer tracking specific requests?
Suppose that tomorrow it's leaked that PGP Corp. planted a
Re:JAP isn't back-doored (Score:1)
Anon P2P (Score:1)
Re:"plausible deniability" (Score:2)
Which, if you'd listened to the senate committee yesterday, has just been classified as 'The internet'. 'They' (meaning government) don't make the distinction between protocols and think Kazaa is a website. The RIAA knows the difference but it's not in their best interest to educate because they don't want to be limited.
In the end it won't matter whether you're doing something legal or illegal, if the RIAA suspect that you're doing something
Who wrote this headline?!? (Score:1)
Re:I bet you hate Nabisco (Score:1)
Re:Who wrote this headline?!? (Score:2)
That depends on who you talk to... there are other [erenkrantz.com] interpretations [wikipedia.org] to consider [skrause.org]
Anyway, JAP appears to be a recursive acronym (ala GNU or Wine) for JAP Anonymity & Privacy, if you look at the site. So your point is less notable...
why not block instead of compromise? (Score:2, Interesting)
What I don't understand about JAP is why they just don't block the websites that the German law inforcers demand access to.
This way they wouldn't compromise the base idea of their system and they wouldn't aid criminal activity. Most countries' legal system doesn't allow helping criminal activity, but cannot force to cooperate fighting it either!
I for one would certainly trust this way much better...
Any thoughts?
Chris.
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http://www.vandenberghe.org/chris [vandenberghe.org]
Re:why not block instead of compromise? (Score:2)
A pedophil guy surfing for child porn is interesting to know if a child in your neighbourhood gets raped and killed.
The web site he was watching before is not interesting at all in that case.
angel'o'sphere
the next big thing! (Score:1, Interesting)
For Web use only (Score:1)
There's no replacement needed (Score:2, Informative)
In my opinion the JAP people did their utmost to
German anonymity (Score:2)
I had never even heard of JAP until about a month ago. I downloaded it to try it out and when I saw the "anonymous" chain consisted entirely of two servers in GERMANY I knew instantly not to trust it - any more than I would trust any US based "anonymous" provider, or any UK based "anonymous" provider.
There's millions of machines in asia with fast connections that are open to the world. If you want anonymity, learn to use a
Re:German anonymity (Score:1)
There's no perfect solution, but JAP is constantly extending its services and mix cascades. Nothing is gained by obscurity here - even if it's tempting - and I surely don't trust an unknown open SOCKS proxy wherever it may be. It is much too easy to setup honeypots and this way you can never be sure. Projects like JAP do have the advantage to document their actions, as far as it is legally possible (and beyond).
Also I do
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