Re:Alternative Internet
by DennisP on Monday July 08, 2013 @11:53AM
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There are some other methods, some listed in the OP:
- Commotion Wireless uses p2p wireless between mobile devices, which pretty much qualifies as a separate physical infrastructure
- If you're ok with the NSA knowing that you sent a message to someone on the network, as long as they don't know who received it, you can post encrypted messages to Usenet. Lots of people receive them, only one can decrypt. I think Bitmessage works this way too.
- Although not listed at OP, there's some academic work on scaling up Dining Cryptographer networks, which maintain anonymity even assuming an adversary who monitors the entire network. For example: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/strong-scalable-ano...
Also I don't think it's been established that the NSA is recording all internet transmission, though that's a good working assumption.
- Commotion Wireless uses p2p wireless between mobile devices, which pretty much qualifies as a separate physical infrastructure
- If you're ok with the NSA knowing that you sent a message to someone on the network, as long as they don't know who received it, you can post encrypted messages to Usenet. Lots of people receive them, only one can decrypt. I think Bitmessage works this way too.
- Although not listed at OP, there's some academic work on scaling up Dining Cryptographer networks, which maintain anonymity even assuming an adversary who monitors the entire network. For example: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/strong-scalable-ano...
Also I don't think it's been established that the NSA is recording all internet transmission, though that's a good working assumption.