🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 4, 2:08 am, David Brown <da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
wrote:


> The whole idea of this seems to be to give customers highly anonymous
> access to text-only chats and forums so that they can write what they
> want without fear of being identified.


Exactly. What's wrong with that?


>
> The biggest trouble is that your caf would /only/ appeal to such
> people.  So anyone coming in is wearing a big sign round their neck
> saying "I am a spy/terrorist/whistle-blower/hacker/disgruntled
> employee".  Since there are vastly better ways to remain anonymous
> on-line, they can add "I know nothing about internet anonymity" to their
> sign.


Not at all.

My cafe would appeal to those who have the following agenda, described
in the below thread. Read it to find out more about just who would
like to be a guest in my hypothetical cafe.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/234474c056a79315?hl=en#


>
> If you actually get any customers, you can expect a CIA van to be parked
> across the street - anyone using your caf will be of interest to them.


Sure. So what?


>
> If you /really/ want to provide anonymous and untraceable browsing, make
> sure most of your customers are playing on-line games, watching videos,
> etc., and that those that want anonymous access use machines without
> disks, boot from a network image, run Linux, and use Tor for all their
> traffic.


Playing on-line games/watching videos? They can do that at home. My
cafe is meant for text-only correspondence in live chat rooms which
fit the characteristics described in the 1st message of this thread.

Speaking of Tor, many IRC chat rooms ban Tor users by default because
gives too much anonymity.