Surveillance of the net and of all our communications has become commonplace with the NSA rapidly gaining the dubious distinction of worst offender. But including the communications of everyone and sundry in their dragnet, not even stopping before diplomats and foreign heads of State, the surveillance culture has overdone it. A serious backlash is now in the making.

There will be changes in how we set up and use our systems of communication to make spying much more difficult. One idea of how to do this comes from Pieter Hintjens who has been writing free and open software for over 20 years, and it involves our cell phones. In his Edge Net proposal, Hintjens imagines cell phones talking directly to other cell phones within WiFi range, bypassing the networks’ cell phone towers, to set up temporary mesh networks. He has actually written free software to make phone client to client communication possible. Those temporary and ever changing mobile networks could use encrypted messaging, and perhaps communications can be anonymous – a bit like on the Usenet in the early days of the internet.

Read more about discount cialis the idea here:

The Edge Net – A First Design Proposal

There is also an Indiegogo campaign to fund this development:

indiegogo.com/projects/the-edge-net

Creating a new Internet that can’t be tapped or hacked, by using the power of the smartphones in our pockets.

I was surprised at the low initial funding target. It has already been exceeded, but in real world terms, Hintjens says, much more is needed to get this off the ground. So any help you might be able to give is still welcome.

“We set our funding goal at $1,000. Realistically we need a hundred times that to build final products ordinary people can download and run on their smartphones.

The budgets — however much we raise — will be handled by my company, iMatix, which has a long track record of making free software. We built ZeroMQ, CZMQ, Zyre, FileMQ, and many other free software projects. It’ll let us switch from other projects to work only on Edge Net. It’ll let us hire designers, security specialists, and other people who can help make this happen.”