Comment AT&T Crowds (Score 1) 508
This story reminds me of the Crowds Project (used to be described at http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds, but the page is down). It was an early scheme to allow anonymous internet browsing.
Basically, a group of cooperating internet users would exchange anonymous proxy services at random. A hit apparently from user X would be guaranteed not to be from user X, but instead from some other user in the crowd. Actual hits from user X would appear to be from random other members of the crowd. Users would promise not to keep logs or otherwise track each other's usage.
Does anyone know if anything ever came of the project?
Basically, a group of cooperating internet users would exchange anonymous proxy services at random. A hit apparently from user X would be guaranteed not to be from user X, but instead from some other user in the crowd. Actual hits from user X would appear to be from random other members of the crowd. Users would promise not to keep logs or otherwise track each other's usage.
Does anyone know if anything ever came of the project?
