Web Security for the Masses?

pixie writes: "A new press release from Zero Knowledge announces a new service that offers protection against invasive tracking and other security threats called WebSecure. The basic difference between this service and the Freedom Network is, that instead of bouncing the request to a number of different servers to obfuscate the original request, WebSecure makes a single pass through servers at Zero-Knowledge." This Internet Explorer-only, not-really-private-at-all service is a big step down from the services they used to provide.

The original Freedom is in open-source now

[willdye]

Zero Knowledge Systems released the source code to their original Freedom network, with the exception of the Windows client. I've set up a Source Forge project to get it up and running again, at http://tweakdom.sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net].

Right now the holdup is just figuring out if I can fire up the network again without getting into a legal fight. Export laws apparently let you publish the raw source code, but offering an anonymity service that uses weapons-grade encryption may be another matter.

I'm trying to make sense of the laws, but at least for me, "legalese" seems worse than Perl as a "write-only" language. Since my objective is just research, I don't mind complying with the laws. The problem is just figuring out what the law requires. Uff-da...

--Will

Orangatango -- another internet privacy option

[bruckie]

Orangatango [orangatango.com] is one of the few internet privacy companies left, with ZeroKnowledge fading and SafeWeb focusing on VPNs now.

They offer many cool features, including location- and browser-independent bookmarks, e-mail anonymity and spam prevention that really works, and IP address hiding. Check them out if you're interested.

Disclaimer: I used to work for Orangatango

--Bruce