#youbroketheinternet (YBTI)

#youbroketheinternet (YBTI)
Can we fight mass surveillance with antitrust laws?
An ongoing discussion with Cory Doctorow
So We Got Tracked Anyway
Researchers find out, Facebook and Google have been using HTTPS
session IDs incorrectly — in a suitable fashion for tracking
all of those people that have been using Cookie filtering tools
to avoid tracking.
Read on
You're My Victim: Nastiest Scam Ever Encountered
Today, Thomas Miller received the
nastiest scam mail
he ever saw.
Regulating technology isn't just a question of saving democracy
from the Internet, it is also about stopping the empowerment of
total strangers to ruin each one of our lives — one by one — individually.
Because what that scam mail is threatening to do, can be done for real.
Policy Recommendations for a Civil and Democratic Digital Future
You may have heard before, that
#youbroketheinternet
offers a
legislation proposal
to address most threats
to democracy, civil society and the future of the human species
caused by digitalization and the Internet.
This document provides a more generic series of policy recommendations
that you are invited to include into the programme of whichever
political project you feel part of.
It's 5 years since the Snowden revelations
Very few things have improved, most of all humanity has accepted
to be living in a post-democratic society in which its basic agency
as an electing sovereign is undermined by psychological operations
either
on a collective level
or
on an individual level
Half a year ago there was a buzz about this anniversary going to be
a big thing and now it just silently passed without much ado.
What happened to all the planned events and media coverage?
Where is the dedicated documentary that was shot at 34c3?
A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place.
Read the article by Richard Stallman
New videos from ChaosWest 34c3
Privacy-Oriented Distributed Networking for an Ethical Internet, including 50 Subsystems of GNUnet
net2o: GUI, realtime mixnet and ethical micropayment with efficient BlockChain
Scalable and Privacy-Respectful Distributed Systems - Our Chance to Avoid Cloud Computing?
(secushare)
Nextcloud End to End Encryption
Modeling Trust in a Distributed Private Social Network
(secushare)
P2P with JavaScript to defend against bad lawmaking
Scuttlebutt introduction
Three and a Half Ways to Enhance Metadata Protection Beyond Tor
(secushare)
THE PROJECT MAP
Here's a map of projects working in some architectural layer of a possible GNU Internet. As you can see, none covers all required layers, so there is some work left to be done:
Blue is for projects in development while green is for those that are available. Yellow to red illustrates technologies that probably need to be obsoleted. See
the map page
for a properly detailed description. Last update in 2018-06.
Architecture for a GNU INTERNET
The summer of 2013 will remain the moment we finally realized
how
broken the Internet
was, and
how much this had been abused
. At first
#youbroketheinternet
was a
cry of anger, but also a call to code the missing pieces for a new Internet
architecture which doesn't fall to pieces like a house of cards.
If deployed on top of technologies that were not designed for it, end-to-end
encryption has proven to be "damn near unusable," as Edward Snowden
put it, let alone forward secure. But there are actually many new tools that
have that feature at their foundation.
Antiquated protocols like DNS, SMTP, XMPP and X.509 leak so-called metadata,
that is the information of who is talking to whom. Also they put user data
on servers out of the reach of their owners.
X.509, the certification system behind HTTPS and S/MIME, is broken and allows most governments and even many companies to run man in the middle attacks on you. The trust chain between the cryptography and the domain names is corrupt. Even if DNSSEC and DANE try to improve the security of DNS, they still expose your interest for certain resources.
SMTP is so hopeless, you shouldn't even use it with PGP
and XMPP fundamentally has the same problems: as long as all involved servers know all about who is talking to whom, it is already by far too much exposed knowledge — even if the mere encryption of the connection, which again depends on X.509, hasn't been undermined by a man in the middle, which is hard to find out if there is no human intervention and no reporting to the actual users when servers pass messages between each other.
This is not the way it has to be. We believe a completely new stack of
Internet protocols is not only feasible, it already exists to a large
extent. It merely needs better attention. Currently the majority of
technology people are focused on improving the above mentioned protocols,
even though they are broken by design… and can only be improved in some
partial aspects. Vastly insufficient compared to what humanity deserves.
This project is for those who want to look into a future of an Internet,
which actually respects constitutional principles and returns democracy
to a mostly functional condition.
Yet, nothing of this comes about if we don't provide incentives.
Without incentives, Internet companies find no business model in
protecting fundamental principles of democracy. Whereas universities
have already delivered several decades of excellent research and
working prototypes in this field, but they aren't incentivized to
produce an actually deployable product. Also standards
organizations are powerless if the company that infringes civil
rights the most is the one that will dominate the market.
In practice, competition is at odds with philanthropy.
Currently it takes enthusiasts to fill in the gaps between what
researchers and companies have released and turn it into something
that actually works for the population. We think we need incentives
to polish the protocol stack of a GNU Internet, and by
GNU
we
mean that the involved software needs to be free as in free speech,
and that we need
regulation
to actually
deploy an upgrade of the Internet to a version that protects its
participants from eavesdropping and social correlation.
The lawless internet will always be more profitable than the one that
respects what's left of democracy
just like it is economically more
profitable to send minorities into concentration camps. It takes
political will to disallow unethical business models. If only the new
Internet is legal, then the opportunity of commercial gain is equal and
ethical for all. Nothing is lost. All the industry should embrace this,
as
only the monopolists need to find themselves new business models
A video presentation of the
#youbroketheinternet
project was given
at the ThinkTwice conference
2014.
For German viewers gibt es die
Videoaufzeichnung unserer Projektpräsentation beim Easterhegg 2014
In 2017 there has been an introductory presentation of
our legislative ideas
at the pirated security conference in Munich.
Proposal for LEGISLATION
Bart Preneel suggests
(article in German)
Europe should invest in an open source infrastructure for secure
routing, secure communication and decentralized storage.
We started working on a EU law proposal to require
mandatory anonymised, authenticated and end-to-end encrypted
communications in all tele­pho­ny and computing devices sold after 201x.
Communications shall be anonymous in the sense that third parties are not
entitled to recognize who is talking to whom yet they should be
authenticated to all of the participants of any conversation, thus
cutting out several vectors for so-called „cybercrime” such as
unauthenticated SPAM mail, possibly containing malware or viruses.
Whereas when interacting with companies, people can choose whether
to stay anonymous, assume a pseudonymous identity or authenticate
as a legal person. This provides for a much safer way to do business
over the Internet, saving citizen and especially companies precious
time and money in extra security measures. In particular the failed
concept of the password as an authentication scheme can be abolished
once cryptographic authenticity is implicit in all transactions.
We recommend the pervasive deployment of
TALER
for anonymous (micro)payments, allowing users to pay for their access
to the net anonymously. We hereby determine the Internet to stop being
a product and start becoming an existential public infrastructure.
We enable the design of "constitutional smartphones" that disallow bulk
location tracking by authorities, but we also envision strategies to
allow for law enforcement within constitutional boundaries,
technologically impeding mass surveillance of entire populations,
yet permitting monitoring of individuals following a court order.
ioerror has recently
formulated similar ideas, albeit with a different strategy.
We shall include ways to ensure the correct implementation of such
a regulation and a transition path from the existing unsafe systems.
Be aware that this initiative, as a side effect of reconstructing the
constitutionality of the Internet, resolves aspects of net neutrality,
data protection and data retention all as an inevitable and logical
side effect.
DG CONNECT of the European Commission has expressed informal interest
in this proposal, but suggests that it should find more public
backing in order to find its way into the regulatory process.
So now it is your turn, dear reader, to help promoting this.
You can examine the current draft in
ODT
(free) or
PDF
(proprietary) format.
Previous versions are listed
here
In 2017 there has been an introductory presentation of
our legislative ideas
at the pirated security conference in Munich.
Publications
2018-07, "The Case for Regulating Social Networks and the Internet" in ACM's XRDS magazine.
2014-11,
A Web Respectful of the Constitution is Possible
by carlo von lynX. Presented at the W3C Privacy Workshop.
2014-03,
The Internet is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a
NEW
GNU Network
by Christian Grothoff, Bartlomiej Polot and Carlo v. Loesch – This paper describes issues for security and privacy at all layers of the Internet stack and proposes radical changes to the architecture to build a network that offers strong security and privacy by default. Presented at the W3C/IETF "Strengthening the Internet" Workshop STRINT.
Siehe auch:
"GNUnet und Informationsmacht: Analyse einer P2P-Netzwerktechnologie und ihrer sozialen Wirkung"
"Zur Idee herrschaftsfreier kooperativer Internetdienste. Eine Übung im utopischen Denken"
What do you do if the "extremist views" you once represented in the wake of the Snowden leaks are now a position discussed in the European Commission?
The Next Generation Internet is not just a functional enhancement or mere optimisation of
the current internet. The NGI is a necessary high level effort to overcome the fundamental
trust crisis the internet has been pushed into in 2013 after whistle-blower revelations detailing
major abuse and large scale exploitation of internet trafic. From a policy and technology
point of view the integrity of the entire system is currently breached.
At the IAB plenary of the
88th IETF Bruce Schneier remarked: “The Internet has largely been run as the United States
benign dictatorship, because everyone kind of believed the United States was acting in the
world's best interests. That's over“. We now have to deal with the unwelcome aftermath of
the double intent with which the internet was brought into the world.
The US government
promoted the internet across the globe as a major contribution to humanity, claiming it
would help spread freedom and knowledge everywhere. Yet elsewhere in government it
consciously decided to abuse that trust, and succeeded in doing so at an unprecedented
scale. In retrospect, the internet has served as an immense trojan horse – one of the greatest
espionage successes recorded in history.
This hidden agenda successfully delivered decades
of mass surveillance capabilities at global scale. The current weak core architecture of the
internet and many of its legacy infrastructure components are to be considered
fundamentally untrustworthy as a result. Action is needed to amend that situation.
The internet of today exhibits intrusive behaviour by nation states as well as commercial and
extralegal actors. The negative effects of the geopolitical double play have been reinforced by
a skewed and predatory market driven by greed and lacking ethical considerations shared
across Europe.
The factual result is an almost complete surrender of autonomy: in the context
of the internet, the web, the mainstream operating system market for desktop and mobile,
content discovery and delivery, e-payments and the cloud. There is a small set of dominant
actors which have successfully hijacked the course of the internet as once envisioned –
although it could be argued that this was a fictional situation to begin with.
There is no
alignment between what is good for society and the internet that is overgrowing the globe.
Succinctly put: we need trust built from the ground up. Every
technical primitive from the current internet needs to be re-evaluated in terms of the
complete threat catalog, as we cannot afford our multi-trillion euro economies and societies
to not be able to trust the internet as we move forward.
We need a Next Generation Internet that – beyond any doubt – is dedicated to the public
good, which is (re-)engineered and professionally audited to achieve solid trustworthiness
and transparency in all aspects of its operation.
… from NLnet & Gartner,
"NGI. Suggested topics for EC DG-CONNECT." Page 7.
Discussing the Next Generation Internet at the 34c3
#youbroketheinternet
joins the
NGI Assembly
at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig from 27th to 30th of December 2017. Visit our talks, discussions, hacking sessions!
Expertise for a Next Generation Internet
#youbroketheinternet
has been invited to join the
NLnet Expert Group
for the
Next Generation Internet consultation
of the European Commission's DG CONNECT, mostly because of our
ideas for regulation for a civil Internet
Pointless? Hopeless? Or a chance to save democracy?
We're
not the first to say
the Internet has turned into the greatest threat to democracy.
The measures society has to take, to ensure civil rights and
freedom aren't at stake, are likely drastic.
More than most would want to believe.
It probably takes both better technologies and better laws.
On May 6th, 2016, at Berlin's Onionspace, the office space
for projects that intend to fix the Internet, we hosted
a political discussion regarding the use of scalable,
distributed and GNU technologies as a possible way to
recover some bits and pieces of democracy.
Is this all pointless? We invited alert minds to
ask us and the audience some tough questions.
Participants in the discussion were:
Renata Avila
, Human Rights Lawyer and WebWeWant Campaign Manager;
Lorenzo Marsili
, Co-founder of European Alternatives;
Hilmar Schmundt
, Technology Reporter at DER SPIEGEL;
Dirk Lütter
, Political Filmmaker;
Claudio 'vecna' Agosti
of HERMES and Globaleaks;
Ms Demos of
EDN
Christian Ricardo Kühne
, Author of "GNUnet and the Power of Information";
carlo von lynX
(youbroketheinternet.org)
Audio recording of the discussion:
Part 1 feat. carlo von lynX, Christian Ricardo Kühne, lynX, Demos
(downloads temporarily disabled)
Part 2 feat. Renata Avila, vecna, Hilmar Schmundt, Renata Avila
(downloads temporarily disabled)
Part 3 feat. Hilmar, lynX, Christian, Grindhold, lynX, Renata, Hilmar (fair sound quality)
(downloads temporarily disabled)
Part 4 feat. Lorenzo Marsili, samthetechie, Renata, Christian, vecna, Christian, Renata, lynX
(downloads temporarily disabled)
Part 5 feat. lynX, Dirk Lütter, Renata, Lorenzo, Renata, lynX, Renata, Christian, vecna, Lorenzo (fair sound quality, too)
(downloads temporarily disabled)
The quality varies depending on the number of recording devices.
Some incomprehensible passages (background noises etc) have been removed.
Occasional electric piano was performed live as suggested by vecna.
Thanks to the Onionspace for having us and sharing a nice party with us.
YBTI after the 33c3 Hacker Congress
We did our best to
Fix the Net
at the 33c3, but since that is never enough,
We Meet Again on January 2nd in Berlin
, from 14:00 to 20:00 hours,
at our favorite Onionspace.
YBTI at the 32c3 Hacker Congress
Once again,
here we were
– and
these were the times
Bernd has recorded some
videos
for us to watch.
Before, during and after the Camp 2015
The
Chaos Communication Camp
has become an almost inevitable place of exchange and shared evolution every four years.
We held a long list of sessions at the
We'll Make us a Gnu One
" project located by
La Quadrature du Camp
We also had meetings and hack-on sessions after the camp in Berlin.
One of the outcomes is the port of
GNUnet on OpenWRT
for the purpose of having a libre cryptographic routing system on mesh networks.
Workshop at Opentechsummit 2015
Always driven by convenience and easy solutions, the Internet and
digital networks such as telephony's GSM have evolved into the easiest
platform for a complete surveillance of humankind. This has some
practical aspects when your priority is to hunt down crime, but by
giving the power of omniscience to certain government agencies the
Montesqueuian principle of Separation of Powers has been undermined.
Foundational values for a successful exercise of Democracy, such as the
Secrecy of Correspondence or the Freedom of Assembly, which is
effectively deanonymized and thus abolished by metadata collection,
are impeded. In a situation of continued observation, the Freedom of
Expression suffers by consequence. Even parts of the European
Commission agree, that unregulated technology has positioned us on
a slippery slope leading us into a neo-totalitarian society.
Surprisingly though, this doesn't have to be this way. By combining
advanced technology and insightful legislation, it is up to the
parliaments in power to priorize correctly and choose whether democratic
preconditions are to be valued over law enforcement convenience.
We discussed options for a
combined legal and
technological framework
that defines a GNU Internet, designed to protect
constitutional principles of democracy, yet allows for targeted
law enforcement within democratic boundaries. As a side effect it should
also provide a more secure way for people to do business over the
Internet and cut out several vectors for "cybercrime."
Videos from the YBTI Sessions at 30c3
Next generation apps
The next generation on privacy and crypto apps all satellite
around public-key based routing. We'll discuss e-mail replacements,
secure telephony and DHT-based storage systems.
Jacob Appelbaum - Pond, a Tor-based mail system
webm
mp4
Leif Ryge - Tahoe-LAFS, a distributed file system storage
(sorry, no video)
Simon Levermann - Tox, a peer-to-peer telephony tool
webm
mp4
Bart Polot - Telephony over GNUnet
webm
mp4
Usability
How can we make our technologies grandpartent compatible and the
exchange of cryptographic keys and shared secrets a natural
everyday transation?
Aleclm (SNAKE) - A friendship handshake evolving the Socialist Millionaire
webm
mp4
vonlynX (secushare) - Usability horror lessons to learn from e-mail, PGP, RetroShare and more
webm
mp4
Jan Borchardt (unhosted) - Open Source Design
webm
mp4
Brennan Novak (mailpile)
webm
mp4
Futures of Public-Key based Routing
How can something like onion routing become a basic function of the Internet?
How can end-to-end authenticity be the default?
Florian Dold - GNUnet's new cryptography
(sorry, no video)
cjd (cjdns) - The edge of dystopia
webm
mp4
Panel feat. I2P, cjdns, GNUnet and more
webm
mp4
Scalability of Distributed Systems
Why is it so hard to do a distributed Twitter that actually works?
Gabor Toth - secushare multicasting over GNUnet
webm
mp4
Moritz Bartl - Scaling the Tor network
(sorry, no video)
von lynX - Distributed social networking over Onion Routing
(sorry, no video)
Mesh Networking
We need more infrastructure that is run independently of nation states or
for-profit corporations. Who owns all the wi-fi gear in our homes? Is it
them or us? How can we as a society operate networks for the common good?
cjd - cjdns, Hyperboria & the Project Meshnet
webm
mp4
Bart Polot - GNUnet Mesh Networking using CADET
webm
mp4
Panel feat. Elektra (BATMAN, Freifunk)
webm
mp4
Secure Name Systems
The great shoot out panel of the name resolution titans. Does it make sense to patch the Domain Name System? Which strategy should we pick for a safer new Internet stack? Should we require cryptographic privacy of name resolution?
Haya Shulman (DNSSEC/DANE)
Dan J. Bernstein (DNSCurve)
Levin Keller (Namecoin)
Christian Grothoff (GNS, the GNU Name System)
Tragically, there are no recordings of this excellent panel.
There is a biased summary in the summary video below.
Additional in-depth presentations
Aleclm - Snake: a privacy-aware social service providing anonymity of data at rest
webm
mp4
Forthy - net2o reinvents the Internet: Secure, reliable, fast and lightweight
(See
net2o.de
for an up to date presentation video).
infinity0 -
Terraforming Arrakis
: development practice recommendations for a long-term architecture of a new Internet
(sorry, no video)
Operating Systems
From safer use of cryptography over kernel magic to reproducible compilation
of to a vision of a full security redesign of the OS.
Jon Solworth - EthOS: an Operating System to make it far easier to write applications that withstand attack
webm
mp4
Tanja Lange & Dan J Bernstein - NaCl: a Networking and Cryptography library improving security, usability and speed
webm
mp4
Lunar - Reproducible Compilation: Challenges of building a deterministic Debian.
Roughly same talk as presented at FOSDEM (
webm
Julian Kirsch - Knock: a Linux kernel patch for operating stealthy TCP servers
webm
mp4
(see also below for the more recent "Knocking down the Hacienda" presentation).
Libre Hardware
If the hardware we are running our systems on is intrinsically insecure,
we may be building a fortress on top of a house of cards. What is
required on the lowest levels to obtain reasonable endpoint security?
Very interesting panel featuring illustre guests:
Rop Gonggrijp (Founder of xs4all.nl)
Dominik (Byterazor)
Bunnie & Xobs (novena laptop)
Karsten Becker (PSHDL on FPGAs)
Peter Stuge (coreboot)
Dan & vonlynX (youbroketheinternet)
Video recording:
webm
mp4
Summary of the 30c3 YBTI Sessions
Summary + discussion on the legislation proposal
for obligatory obfuscated and end-to-end encrypted communication:
webm
mp4
Best Practices for Crypto
We have published our revised version of the comparison report
on
Options for a Secure Mail System
originally written by Elijah Sparrow of the LEAP project. It discusses
plenty of legacy protocols and legacy-oriented proposals such as
LEAP itself and why very unfortunately they are unlikely to solve
the issues at stake.
Then again you may find
Best
Practice Recommendations for Crypto Tools
much more interesting
as it spans all use cases and is more to the point.
Video: Knocking down the HACIENDA
This is
Knocking down the HACIENDA
,"
the talk from the GNU Hackers Meeting 2014
that caused some mayhem for making the GCHQ HACIENDA
program generally known to the public.
The talk details how the five eyes agencies have been
collaborating to systematically obtain control over computers
on the entire planet, and how the new TCP Stealth technology
developed by the presenter provides obstacles to the massive
port scanning.
GNU Internet technologies should support this new advanced
TCP port knocking technique.
Workshop for a GNU CONSENSUS
On the week-end of August 24-25, 2013, we gathered at
Berlin's CCC headquarters to develop a rough
consensus
on what the criteria should be for a GNU internet and to
prepare for the upcoming sessions at 30C3.
Video: Talks for a GNU INTERNET
This is
the video
from the talks given in Berlin on August 1st
, 2013.
Over 100.000 people have watched it already — so should you.
The talks are in English, even though the welcoming words are in German.
... featuring:
Christian Grothoff, leader of the
GNUnet project
at the Technische Universität München
Richard Stallman, president of the
Free Software Foundation
Carlo von lynX, designer of the
secushare.org project
Jacob Appelbaum,
Tor Project
Torsten Grote,
Free Software Foundation Europe
Denis Sabin,
Piraten Berlin
Christian Grothoff's talk summarized the recent revelations about PRISM
and their implications for non-American citizens, industries and
governments. It then presented technical solutions towards a secure
and fully decentralized future Internet, which would address key challenges
for self-determined life created by the world-wide police state.
Interesting details on this:
A new cryptographic method for a privacy-capable DNS/DNSSEC placement, called GADS (it was later renamed into GNS as in
GNU Naming System
).
faster and smarter
extensible messaging syntax than XML and JSON, called
PSYC
A strategy for distributed and liberated Internet search, called RegEx.
Carlo von lynX gave a presentation on how secushare intends to provide
messaging and Facebook-like functionality on top of GNUnet. Keywords:
Scalability thanks to a new multicast pubsub layer for P2P;
Social graph vs. Onion routing;
Unsafety of your own server in an XKeyscore world.
Richard Stallman and Jacob Appelbaum reminded the audience of the
relevance of free software, free hardware and the pervasive use of
cryptography and responded to questions.
Denis and Torsten spoke introductory and closing words.
This event was kindly hosted by the
Piratenpartei Berlin
ASKED QUESTIONS
How long will the employed cryptography last?
All of the platforms are apparently migrating to a healthy variant of elliptic curve crypto (ECC), so that is likely to be fine for years. Even if a way to break it is discovered, it will be an extra effort to decrypt anything, so it is a good idea to hide your private messages in a large body of cover traffic. The aim of
#youbroketheinternet
is to impede mass surveillance, not targeted operations, therefore this type of architecture is sufficient from our point of view. If you need more security, the safest choice is to not use the Internet or to not use a computing device.
Can I trust private cloud technology?
That is currently a gamble. As a rule of thumb, the cheaper the hosting, the easier for governments and other attackers to have automated access to server memory and cryptographic keys. Location of the servers may be of relevance. Manufacturer also. Hiding the services behind Tor, I2P or other technologies may be helpful. In all cases servers tend to become honeypots, so we recommend technologies that do not depend upon them. See also
Nick Szabo
on the general subject of trusting third parties. The recommendations he gives are the kind of distributed technologies we are promoting.
How scalable should messaging systems be?
For asynchronous one-on-one communications it may not be essential.
Pond
is an architecture that should work fine if you limit the number of people you use it with. As soon as you expect to have a buddy list indicating the online presence of your friends in order to have a synchronous chat, that's when scalability strikes. If you also consider mailing lists or microblogging as use cases, then it is a big factor. In that case the question is, why deploy a not so scalable messaging technology if there is hope we will be able to provide a scalable one? And does it really make sense these days to deploy a messaging technology that isn't integrated into a social networking experience?
Now that asymmetry is no longer a requirement in modern DSL technology, does it make sense to push for its reduction?
Absolutely yes. The less we depend on relay nodes, the better a GNU Internet works.
Why GNU and not new?
GNU stands for the civic freedoms provided by free software
Richard Stallman explains it nicely in the video mentioned above.
The privacy requirements that we have for the new Internet
cannot be guaranteed by non-free software. And since we also
depend on relay nodes not operated by ourselves, Affero GPL is best.
Does the GNU Internet need a custom software license?
We currently recommend the Affero GPL, because of all the good reasons Mr Stallman explained to you. In particular we expect that companies would try to offer gatewaying services once these technologies become more popular, so it is important that these services, at least legally, cannot be running rogue versions of the software that disrespect their user's rights. A harsher free software license than AGPL may be a good idea, but it may require revisiting also the definition of "open source."
Why was this website previously not protecting privacy by using HTTPS?
1. You can visit it using a more secure mechanism than HTTPS, at the
address (Tor protects you from persons in the middle and also tries to anonymize your interest in this), 2. because
you
need to make sure you are accessing the web anonymously much more than we can protect you by deploying HTTPS and 3. because we were tired of managing dozens of certificate expirations to satisfy the whim of the
broken X.509 standard
Do you also work on actual code?
Some of us are involved with
secushare
, but we try out all sorts of XKEYSCORE-resistant technology. You may find our
Gentoo
overlay at
git://psyciumunsqarzsehz5xlgsi2mg4dkvntwf5bwj5kwbcbazwiuhna2ad.onion/youbroketheinternet-overlay
useful, unless you already moved on to
GuixSD
WE'RE NOT ALONE
Back in 2013, just after the Snowden leaks, we seemed to be
the only crazy people to ask for these things.. a systematic
overhaul of the Internet.. an immediate upgrade from merely
encrypted communications to metadata-protective communications.
Our idea that servers aren't a safe place for such data was
considered radical, even just after the new findings, but to
us it was clear there was not another day to lose. In the
meantime more political projects promoting these technologies
have sprung up with very similar objectives, not counting the
software projects themselves, which started heading in the
right direction already a decade before. So let us recommend
you also inspect
EDN
the mesh networking oriented sister of YBTI and the
Counterantidisintermediationism
project (also known as e2einit).
2017, the
Pirates
and
ind.ie
are involved.
The
NLnet Expert Group
is
consulting the European Commission in regards of a
Next Generation Internet
project, that sounds as if they responded to our call for incentives.
GET IN TOUCH
If you're already using
Tor
software
you can meet us in our chatroom via our onion service:
Chatroom on psycyificvaxuzut3t6hcies3stfdtlzqftcnmbb5su3xv4zugplsfad.onion
(requires Tor-enabled IRC program)
Encrypted Webchat
(requires patience to leave it open until someone answers)
Same chatroom, if you prefer an XMPP client
(requires you to create an account on psycyificvaxuzut3t6hcies3stfdtlzqftcnmbb5su3xv4zugplsfad.onion port 52)
Otherwise, here are more traditional means:
Chatroom on psyced.org
(requires TLS/SSL-enabled IRC program)
Encrypted Webchat
(requires patience to leave it open until someone answers)
Same chatroom, Tempora-friendly
(requires XMPP account and program)
We hope our chat service to be reasonably safe, but there's still a
risk that your interest in us is exposed, or even the contents of
the chat ends up in the wrong hands.
We may occasionally make public announcements in the unsafe Internet:
@youbrokethenet on PRISM
(requires to sell your soul to Twitter)
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