"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin
Franklin
Latest news - edition 11 - 3rd july 2003
The Freenet software section was updated; killed a bug
that caused false warning of site update. .
The Project published a white paper on the anonymous remailer
attack; you can read it
here
.
The Winston Smith Project organized the meeting "E-privacy
2003, privacy and human rights on the Net". Proceedings,
software, audio recording of speech and the ISO image of the
CD-ROM distributed during the meeting are available on the
<<
meeting
site >>.
The Project freesite goes on Freenet 0.5 and become Edition-based;
this mean that if browsing the freesite you see a red announce
box on the left navigation menu, a new edition of the freesite
is available. Just click it to visit the new edition. The old
Freenet 0.3 freesite remains available
<<
here
>> , but will not be updated.
We have now our messaging service via Freenet; if you need to
communicate with us, go to the end of this page.
The translation of the Project freesite is started; we
need
you to volunteer for this job. Write or send a message
if you can help us. At this moment, only the homepage is in
English; be patient !
Manifest
(winstonsmith@nym.alias.net)
Winston Smith is the main character of "1984",
the famous George Orwell's novel; at the end of the novel,
Winston Smith is defeated by the Big Brother.
Today, in the Third Millennium, Big Brother is between
us, materialized from the printed paper of a book to the real
world, and become bigger each day; this happens unnoticed
or approved by the majority of people, .
We don't want this happens !
We have the instruments to save our privacy.
We don't watch passively the coming of Big Brother.
We'll do all we can do to avoid that in the third millennium,
Orwell's vision, or better Orwell's nightmare become reality,
that Big Brother take control of our privacy and our lives.
Luckily, we are not yet in Winston Smith's world, where
he/we need to fight against a consolidated establishment;
in the real world we can still stop his growth.
In the '90, with the introduction of P.G.P.(Pretty Good
Privacy) and other cryptographic system for personal use,
this danger seems defeated. In the following years newer and
stronger privacy instruments were developed: Anonymous Remailer,
anonymous peer-to-peer network like Freenet, free software
version of Pgp.
Unfortunately, the strength of all powerful defense systems
is greatly reduced because too few people know it and fewer
use it. More people use it, more difficult to obtain a global
control of our lives become.
What we need to do ? We think that the attempt to directly
teach the use of the privacy self-defense already failed,
and in the present globalization cannot have any practical
usefulness.
For this reason we think we need to achieve a multiplying
factor, to reach enough people that use and live partly in
the Net.
The Winston Smith Project's objective is to facilitate
the creation of "E-privacy service provider", giving them
the know-how and the documentation needed to the setup of
"E-privacy public servers".
As first goal, the Project will make software & documentation
kits to make easier build and startup Freenet servers, Anonymous
Remailers and Anonymous Proxy, and at the same time give maximum
visibility of all those resources to end users.
Doing that, we'll build a team of people able to give technical
support to individual that want to install and operate privacy
servers and to end users.
We think that the resources needed to build privacy server
(free, freely available, operated by volunteers as usual on
the good 'ol Internet) are common on the Net, like the concern
about privacy in the globalized world.
We want be the catalyzer; do you have spare time and knowledge
to invest here ? Follow us in this adventure
!
