Posted 07/10/08 at 09:06:14 AM by Chris Moody

The folks behind the popular torrent site,The Pirate Bay have added another project to their list. They want to encrypt the Internet. Not just little pieces, but the whole thing. They have named it Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets, or IPETEE for short. The encryption would happen on the network level so most anything could be encrypted transmitted and decrypted, providing the systems have adopted the technology on both sides. It would be completely transparent to the user, unlike say IPSEC on IPv4. IPv6 may make this moot if its implementation is more polished (and we will have to leave IPv4 sometime)

Apparently the European Union’s move going to a DMCA like copyright enforcement effort is what spurred this interest from the Sweden based group.

I love anything that keeps our privacy, private. I do have to wonder if it’s going to really be practical or worth it to encrypt everything. It adds overhead to bandwidth, and increases loads on CPUs. Granted these are minimal, but on busy servers this will pile up and run up costs, which would impede adoption.

Of course it still has to be launched, and track records count. The Pirate Bay’s other unlaunched projects include: The Video Bay, music site PlayBle, and a new secure version of the P2P protocol. IPETEE is a much more ambitious and involved project than any of those. We will have to wait and see if there will be enough interest to get it going. In the mean time we can be entertained by their legal section.

What do you think of total encryption of all internet traffic? Is it worth it? Let us know in the comments section!

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encryption, P2P, torrent, bandwidth, the priate bay, DCMA, ipsec, IPETEE

Posted 03/30/08 at 03:01:57 PM by Zack Stern

Hollywood math: HDCP + AACS = PITA²

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drm, encryption, mpaa, copy protection, HDCP, bd+, aacs, slysoft, anydvd

Posted 01/10/08 at 04:17:00 PM by Erin Simon

The legal right not to turn over your encryption password.

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encryption, Privacy, law, criminal law, PGP, kiddie porn, fifth amendment, self-incrimination

Posted 09/05/06 at 05:37:06 PM by Will Smith

We carry a ton of data on our USB thumb drives that we wouldn’t want leaked on the Internet. Whether your key carries your “piss off” letter to your boss, a cache of all your passwords and serial numbers, or those incriminating videos that you took on your last trip to Amsterdam, you need to protect its contents. That’s where Private Disk comes in.

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Software, encryption, Flash Drive, utilities, reviews

Posted 05/05/06 at 05:19:53 PM by Michael Brown

Are you being watched? Between the Feds conducting warrant-less wiretaps and companies monitoring their employees’ web-surfing habits, the notion of privacy is as quaint as a PS/2 port. The Stealth Surfer II can’t help with your phone conversations, but it will cover your online tracks—at least most of them.

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Security, usb, encryption, hardware, portable storage, reviews