New Government Stealth Internet-Because the last one failed

The New York Times ran an expose today on the new “stealth” internet funded by the Obama administration. This new “internet in a suitcase” can be deployed anywhere on the globe and allow dissidents living under oppressive regimes to communicate free from interference. But they did that already. It was called TOR (previously onion routing) and it failed so spectacularly that this new State Department project was created in a rush to replace it.

No mention is made in the Times article of TOR, nor does it mention that the US Government even tried to create something similar in the past. Well, they did. And as Michael Reed of the Naval Research Laboratory, and one of the creators of TOR, has spoken openly about the advantages of having everyone use your technology.

Reed verifies that having a line of communication that only the US Government would use is basically pointless. The trick is to get your enemies involved. That way they can not shut down their opposition without hurting themselves. However, TOR itself is not really anonymous and is extremely vulnerable. After all, if it worked so well then why the scramble to create something new?

During the State Department sponsored Alliance of Youth Movements in December 2008 the Egyptian revolution was planned for 2011. The sponsoring company, Howcast, even had instructional videos on anonymous web surfing and even suggests using TOR (3:32). During the Egyptian uprising Howcast spun off Movements.org to help aid the dissidents in the revolution. Upset that bloggers had drawn the conclusion that Howcast.com and Movements.org were one in the same, staff members made contact and asked them to delete or edit their posts; operating with government money of course.

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