Anonym.OS a Boon for Privacy Geeks?

The Hosting Guy writes "Wired is running an article about a live CD that makes anonymous browsing easy enough for everyone. 'So easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks.' 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."

Speaking of anonymous....

[Amoeba]

From the article: "If Granny's into trannies, and doesn't want her grandkids to know, she should be able to download without fear," says Taylor Banks, project leader.

This is why co-workers and I have been working on Fappix - The Pornnoisseur Distro. Not only can you browse anonymously but you have several thousand pre-bookmarked pages to choose from in categories ranging from Amateur Nudes to Bukkake Hentai to Puke porn. You have a hankering for some DP? We got it. Maybe a little fisting for those slow lonely nights at home. Nothing but the best for our users!

Never worry about having the correct video codec or player again as they will all be pre-installed! No more waiting another 20 minutes to download and install some obscure viewer just so you can rub on off to Kismet the Albino Sheep Goes to the Circus!

With our patented "Live (Hand) CD" technology you simply boot from the disk and off you go into fantastic realms of spanktacular fun without the worry of spyware, malware, trojans, or incriminating cache files again. You'll never have to blame that spandex scat video on "some spam or something" ever again!

Fappix. The sound of one hand clapping.

Interesting quotes

[Amoeba]

"If Granny's into trannies, and doesn't want her grandkids to know, she should be able to download without fear," says Taylor Banks, project leader.

'So easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks.'

Am I the only one who finds the juxtaposition of these two quotes alarming? I don't want gamgams to end up in the pokey (pun intended) for inappropriate behavior at Starbucks. That would be weird.

Re:Speaking of anonymous....

[pjt33]

From the article: "If Granny's into trannies, and doesn't want her grandkids to know, she should be able to download without fear," says Taylor Banks, project leader. This is why co-workers and I have been working on Fappix - The Pornnoisseur Distro.

My fascination with the segue from Granny's love of outdated radios to porn is fighting with my desire not to know.

Re:anonymous?

[Anonymous Coward]

Confederate nodes?

Can't you just declare war and have them rejoin the union?

Re:Speaking of anonymous....

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Never worry about having the correct video codec or player again as they will all be pre-installed!

You can tell the guy who's had to deal with porn video file formats a lot. This is real life experience speaking here.

Fantastic!

[wmajik]

So easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks.

Fantastic! I've always thought copious amounts of caffeine and an anonymous method of browsing for porn were meant for ubergeeks like myself, but now that my *grandma* can do it as well, that's just fantastic!

... (pause)...

OH GOD, MY EYES!!!

Re:Interesting quotes

[temojen]

My grandmother would not know an alternate gearset [nismoparts.com] if she sat on it. But I wouldn't think she'd get arrested for looking up this sort of tranny in a starbucks.

Re:Interesting quotes

[smittyoneeach]

Thus, grandma should take to heart the wisdom of the C++ community, and not make the private members public.
Keep a weather eye on those friends, too.
If her compiler is a little dusty, compile-time meta-programming is definitely out. Bingo is a sufficiently 'edgy' activity for gamgams, think you not?

Re:Speaking of anonymous....

[MightyMartian]

So does anyone know just how much porn there is on the internet? I'm looking for hard statistics cause most "normal" people don't get it when I refer to my connection as a "porn pipe".

Very likely because they think your talking about some body part.

Re:But

[MightyMartian]

my grandma is dead you insensitive clod!

Yes, I suppose they have that kind of porn, too.

Re:Joke's on them

[MightyMartian]

The internet came together when the arpanet, and various service providers merged together and everyone else joined

I nominate this for the most concisely inept retelling of the history of the Internet ever!

Re:OpenBSD based, not FreeBSD

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

No blogs of code (like Linux or FreeBSD) are allowed.

// Linux Kernal v.2.7...

int main()
{

while(1)
{

set_mood('depressed');
set_currently_playing('Mourning Dew For You - The Emostreet Boys');
set_post('i know ive said it before but my life sucks. im gonna kill myself i sware. everyone hates me. i cut myself again.');

}
exit(0);

}

Has this been tested?

[argoff]

I'll believe it wen I see it.

Like, have they downloaded/posted credit card numbers, kiddy porn, terrost plots, maybe post a promise to kill the president, and customized ones for several western and radical countries? Maybe send death threats to the head of the CIA, FBI, and NSA? Maybe the russian mafia? Maybe the israli secret police?

If people start getting away with those kind of things, then I'll conisider it.

you first.

[poot_rootbeer]

And thank God..... instead of trying to win a losing battle against privacy loss it would be better if we put our energies into making a completely transparent world. Information wants to be free, deal with it.

Hey, can I have your Social Security and bank account numbers?

What do you mean, "no"? INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREEEEE!!!

Re:But

[Anonymous Coward]

But she still votes, right?

Re:Speaking of anonymous....

[Flunitrazepam]

My idea during the .com era was to sell hard drives... WITH PORN ALREADY ON THEM!!! What a great deal, you can just overwrite it if you want, but now your 10 gig drive is chalk full of porn upon purchase, saving you valuable surfing and downloading time.

I was going to sell water sports porn on Seagate drives :/

Okay, maybe not the first.

[Futurepower(R)]

Another thing wrong with the story is that they didn't post a link to the CD: Anonym.OS LiveCD [sourceforge.net].

That's the first time I've ever known a Slashdot editor to be sloppy.

Re:The whole privacy movement seems to have fizzle

[dcam]

I haven't actively sought these tools in a while, so maybe they've caught up. But I keep my ear to the wall, and I have yet to hear any murmers of good anonymizing technologies, nor do I ever see any passing references to people using them.

There's your problem. You are supposed to put the glass to the wall and your ear to the glass.

Re:Too bad no one using it can comment

[XSforMe]

(s)he
Stop deluding yourself

Re:Has this been tested?

[greg1104]

> have they downloaded/posted credit card numbers, kiddy porn, terrost plots, maybe post a promise to kill the president, and customized ones for several western and radical countries?

Holy shit, where did you get a copy of my to-do list at? Apparently I need to encrypt my information a bit better myself.

Phone conversation with Grandma at Starbucks

[davidwr]

[Grandma] Where's the blue E?
[me] There's no blue E grandma, click on the orange and blue ball.
[Grandma] What does "Server not found" mean?
[me, muttering...] fsck'ing TOR timeouts
[Grandma] What was that again, I couldn't hear you.

How anonymous are we talking?

[TheRon6]

What are you saying? Is this like... better than the "Post Anonymously" check box and stuff?

Re:Privacy Geek

[HellYeahAutomaton]

Any reasonable person who wants to sunbathe nude in their backyard is going to build a fence. A "privacy geek" would build a fence just to build the fence.


And I, for one, do not want to see a nude privacy geek.

Re:Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts

[minus9]

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."