At EPRCI, we believe in protecting your privacy and security—your right to exchange any information you wish, safely and securely, and without fear of oppressive government censorship laws. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of software and projects that will aid you in doing so.
Also see our complementary list of resources on eliminating the government’s “privacy.”
Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish “freesites” (websites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralized to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in “darknet” mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are routed through other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the “data store”) for storing files. Files are automatically kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files are encrypted, so generally the user cannot easily discover what is in his datastore, and hopefully can’t be held accountable for it. Chat forums, websites, and search functionality, are all built on top of this distributed data store.
Freenet has been downloaded over two million times since the project started, and used for the distribution of censored information all over the world including countries such as China and the Middle East.
From https://freenetproject.org/whatis.html. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.
Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor’s hidden services let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses.
From https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
An anonymous hosting service within the Tor network. (You will need to be running Tor in order for the link to work.) If you’ve read about the services we provide and you need something even more secure, Freedom Hosting might be what you’re looking for.
I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (à la IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (à la TCP). All communication is end-to-end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points (“destinations”) are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).
I2PTunnel is currently used to let people run their own anonymous website (“eepsite”) by running a normal webserver and pointing an I2PTunnel “server” at it, which people can access anonymously over I2P with a normal web browser by running an I2PTunnel HTTP proxy (“eepproxy”). In addition, the same technique is used to run an anonymous IRC network (where the IRC server is hosted anonymously, and standard IRC clients use an I2PTunnel to contact it).
From http://www.i2p2.de/intro.html. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
AnonPaste is based on the open source ZeroBin software. It is a minimalist, opensource online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
This service is brought to you courtesy of Anonymous and the Peoples Liberation Front.
From http://anonpaste.tk/. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
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