[freenet-chat] Swedish Pirate Party Launches a Commerical Darknet

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In <bdf68d400608151038o10a39447t5c3d5896e6af3db1 at mail.gmail.com> "Shoey Fighter" <shoeyfighter at gmail.com> wrote:
>Swedish Pirate Party launches a "commercial darknet":
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>http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/press_release_pirate_party_launches_worlds_first_commercial_darknet/
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>Cheers to them!
>
>ShoeyFighter


except for one thing.  check them out more closely and you will
see that they are nothing more than another privacy.li or findnot.com
they promise total anonymity and no logging.  it doesn't work that way.
if they are going to charge for their service (and their page says they do),
and if they are going to deal with abuse complaints (no choice if they want to
stay in business for very long) then they MUST do a certain level of logging to
keep track of users. this means that LEAs can come in and demand those logs,
with hell to pay if they don't cough them up fast.

NO paid for anonymity service can work, ever.  The fact that it must be paid for
makes the full anonymity impossible.

The best they can hope to do is add another step between the user and snoops.
privacy they can provide, NOT anonymity.

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