Wired News riporta la notizia del primo sistema operativo disegnato per garantire un accesso veramente anonimo e sicuro alla Rete.
To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail -- a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks.
That was the guiding principle for the members of kaos.theory security research
when they set out to put a secure crypto-heavy operating systems on a bootable CD: a disk that would offer the masses the same level of privacy available to security professionals, but with an easy user interface.
I problemi ancora aperti sono numerosi, ma la prima versione e' incoraggiante. Tuttavia, esistono dubbi sulla sua utilita' nel caso di governi repressivi: in fondo, se il governo e' in grado di arrestarti e torturarti per il solo fatto di conneterti alla Rete o di usare tecniche di criptaizone, non serve a molto impedirgli di leggere la tua posta...
But actually using the system can be a slow experience. Anonym.OS makes extensive use of Tor, the onion routing network that relies on an array of servers passing encrypted traffic to permit untraceable surfing. Sadly, Tor has recently suffered from user-base growth far outpacing the number of servers available to those users -- at last count there were only 419 servers worldwide. So Tor lags badly at times of heavy use.Between Tor's problems, and some nagging performance issues on the disk itself, Banks concedes that the CD is not yet ready for the wide audience he hopes to someday serve. "Is Grandma really going to be able to use it today? I don't know. If she already uses the internet, yes."
Experts also say Anonym.OS may not solve the internet's most pressing issues, such as the notorious China problem: repressive governments that monitor their population's net access, and censor or jail citizens who speak out against the government.
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