The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet

I think the most useful part of this article is the last paragraph, where the author notes that none of The Pirate Bay's lofty projects have come to fruition yet. Until there is something that I can download and install on my computer, this is just vaporware.

John Gilmore (employee number 5 at Sun, and co-founder of the EFF and cypherpunks) tried something similar in the late 1990s: <a href="http://www.toad.com/swan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.toad.com/swan.html</a>

Well, we have to do something with all those extra cores we're getting courtesy of the hardware guys. We might as well encrypt/decrypt the data that we're using with the extra cores that we're going to have.

In short - they are trying to re-invent IPsec (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec</a>).

Too bad TorPark (aka xBrowser and a lot of other things) swayed too far from the Mozilla/Open Source path and into the hands of a semi shady privacy company.<p>Was a cool project.

I'm not sure how this problem isn't solved by onion routing already

I love it ;)

I really love this guys!