full-disclosure - some interresting project i just stumbled across...

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From: adam at huntrecruiting.com (Adam Hunt)
Subject: some interresting project i just stumbled
	across...

Not only is the agreement at the bottom of this outright silly but the 
company is trying to punt "Linux Shell accounts" with an image of a 12 
in ibook in the header.
Please don't take this as a Flame take this as constructive criticism

On Feb 2, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Oliver Leitner wrote:

> I was just surfing a bit around and came across this interresting 
> sounding
> project.
>
> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
>
> here is a short description of what it is from their page:
>
> "ENTROPY stands for Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield 
> and as
> such describes the main goal of the project.
>
>     * ENTROPY is developed as a response to increasing censorship and
> surveillance in the internet. The program connects your computer to a 
> network
> of machines which all run this software. The ENTROPY network is running
> parallel to the WWW and also other internet services like FTP, email, 
> ICQ.
> etc.
>     * For the user the ENTROPY network looks like a collection of WWW 
> pages.
> The difference to the WWW however is that there are no accesses to 
> central
> servers. And this is why there is no site operator who could log who
> downloaded what and when. Every computer taking part in the ENTROPY 
> network
> (every node) is at the same time server, router for other nodes, 
> caching
> proxy and client for the user: that is You.
>     * After you gained some experience with the ENTROPY network, there 
> are
> command line tools for you to insert whole directory trees into the 
> network
> as a ENTROPY site. So ENTROPY does for you what a webspace provider 
> does for
> you in the WWW - but without the storage and bandwidth costs and 
> without any
> regulation or policy as to what kind of content you are allowed to 
> publish.
> Everyone can contribute his own ENTROPY site for everybody else to 
> browse
> through. The contents is stored in a distributed manner across all 
> available
> and reachable nodes and no one can find out about who put up what 
> contents
> into the network [1]. Even if your node is not actively running, your
> contents can be retrieved by others -- without knowing that it was 
> actually
> you who published the files. Of course this is only true if you do not
> publish your name (or leave your name or other personal data in the 
> files you
> publish)
>
> Have fun,
> Juergen "
>
> so i thought i might share the url with you peoples.
>
> If you have any suggestions for the project, contact em, and not me, i 
> am not
> a developer there)
>
> Greetings
> Oliver Leitner
> Technical Staff
> http://www.shells.at
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