electrician123 used our newssubmit to tell us about an intresting article on Wired.com reporting about new software to be released by Hacktivismo, a politically minded offshoot of the long-running hacker collective the Cult of Dead Cows.
The software called Six/Four should make internet access totally anonymous by adding extra security layers to an users interconnection. This would theoretically make it impossible for e.g. the RIAA to track illegal file sharers:
Currently, hackers and other privacy-minded folk go through "open proxies" -- misconfigured corporate servers -- to mask their identities before chatting or visiting Web pages. It's a little like snail-mailing a letter from a post office box in another state. |
"Theoretically, for every server in between you and the destination server, another search warrant is required to view that computer's logs, if they still exist, to get your IP (Internet Protocol) address," said a former dot-com technology executive who's now an open-proxy devotee.
Six/Four takes this about 100 steps further by adding layer after layer of additional anonymity, because "each link in the chain only knows the link immediately before, not the final destination," said "The Mixter," the 23-year-old German hacker who authored Six/Four.
Well this sounds really good, but will be a great risk for e.g the movie and music industry, with this illegal file-shares might be unstoppable. Unfortunately childporn traders too
Source: Wired.com
