EU adopts data retention [LWN.net]

EU adopts data retention

Posted Dec 14, 2005 16:44 UTC (Wed) by pheldens (guest, #19366)
Parent article: EU adopts data retention

A sad day for human rights in europe.
Let's hope it will increase the usage and developement of anonymising tech.

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EU adopts data retention

Posted Dec 14, 2005 17:02 UTC (Wed) by rmayr (subscriber, #16880) [Link]

This directive was the reason why Gibraltar firewall will include freenet,
anon-proxy, tor, and mixmaster in the next release. It will not be enabled
by default, but we are trying hard to make it very simple for users to
activate them and use them transparently, without having to change the
clients. Details can be found under
http://jupiter.gibraltar.at/pipermail/gibraltar-list/2005...

I have tested anon-proxy and freenet heavily in your test network over the
last 4 months, and both are stable. freenet still has some problems with
memory usage when running continuously for a long time, but I can
certainly recommend anon-proxy as a tool to preserve a bit of privacy
(there is even a Debian package available in the main archives).

Unfortunately, it is not much that we can do, but this is our small
contribution to preserving privacy in Europe.

EU adopts data retention

Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:13 UTC (Wed) by rmstar (guest, #3672) [Link]

we are trying hard to make it very simple for users to activate them and use them transparently, without having to change the clients

Nice idea, but - the tor servers will probably stop working reliably under the aditional load, and so the whole thing will not be a nice experience. I don't expect many new servers appearing, as running tor servers yourself in europe will probably be costly and likey to make you a target of legislation and law-enforcement. Most people aren't that idealistic.