David Spreen wrote:
I will upload a fix to this today.
Thanks. I will try it when it appears.
However, due to AN.ON's obligation to
implement data retention in accordance with German law[1] and the fact
that most free cascades only use a short mix cascade within Germany, I
will orphane the package in the near future.
That is unfortunate. When it works, it is very much faster than tor.
I hope that some cascades outside of Germany will be started, and the
package gets de-orphaned. Also, your citation [1] says:
According to ยง113a Section 8 of the German Telecommunications Act it
is forbidden to log any information about destinations and requested
Internet pages. Therefore neither IP-addresses of contacted servers
nor requested URLs will be logged.
Thus the data-retention doesn't sound completely dire. Also, I assume
that the NSA and/or other US entities are logging and/or causing to be
logged as much information as possible, and I am much more comfortable
being spied on by Germany than by the US. Germany hasn't been ruled by a
whacko death-cult maniac for more than 60 years, and the US came close
to having one just a heart-beat away from the Presidency starting in
less than a month. Obama is all well and good, but Germany still doesn't
scare me nearly as much as the USA does.
Please also note that the free cascades are likely to not work at all
throughout the next month or so. For this also see [1].
I was aware of that. I still hope that the mix idea grows outside of
Germany, as when it works it seems to work much better than the tor network.
Happy New Year.
Jim
[1] http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/dataretention_en.html
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