Re: Ultimate Anonymity

Volker Birk wrote:
Alvin Schurman <gth789m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Volker Birk wrote:
"Rick D" <> wrote:
I'm thinking of sending these people my money. Any comments on how
If you want anonymity, why not just using Tor or JAP/AN.ON?
The German authorities have a backdoor installed in JAP/AN.ON. Feel free to Google it for the whole story. 

Yes. Please read the whole story. And what's with Tor?

I just researched the topic over my winter vacation and came to the conclusion that Tor is the best anonymity tool. It was produced by the U.S. Navy 

Does not sound like there is no backdoor ;-)

OK, forget that. Neither Tor nor JAP are offering what the two of us
would call "absolute anonymity". But both are giving a good possibility
to get a good amount of anonymity, if one choses nodes for the onion
routing in a clever way.

Yours,
VB.


Thanks for the replies.

I agree with your suspicion about the Navy. History has shown us that govenments and militaries are the last people to trust with personal privacy. But I think tor is a different creature. I read an article about how tor was released by the military to the public so that:

1. U.S. mil & gov snoops would have a cloud of public users as cover.

2. A potential method for providing anonymous communications in and out of counties like China.

I won't reference the article because it was written with a paranoid/schizo slant, but regardless of that I think it had some sound logic.

You sound like you know what you're talking about so I have a technical question for you if you don't mind. I thought tor always routed through 3 unspecified nodes. How can you specify which onion routers to use? Are you talking about sending traffic through a personal tor server prior to usual routing?

Thanks.
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