The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
tags: Portable anonymity application-blocker bloatware-remover built-in-ad-blockerI2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.
tags: anonymity anonymizing-network anonymous-email dark-web darknetFreenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.
tags: anonymity censorship-resistant connection darknet decentralizedGNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer indistinguishable from messages that the peer is routing. All peers act as routers and use link-encrypted connections with stable bandwidth utilization to communicate with each other. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service. ยป
tags: accounting anonymous-file-sharing backup-and-restore decentralized distributedMesh routing protocol designed to handle a massive amount of nodes with very low resource consumption. Thanks to this feature it can be easily used to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and uncontrolled network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls.
tags: anonymity darknet mesh-network mesh-routing network-utilityThePirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client ( Vidalia ), Mozilla Firefox Portable browser (with FoxyProxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens.
tags: Discontinued Portable anonymity anticensorship firefox-basedMUTE File Sharing is a peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.
tags: file-sharing peer-to-peer anonymous-file-sharingLibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.
tags: ad-hoc decentralized distributed libre meshOsiris is a free portal creation software. The portals created with Osiris don't need a central server; they are safe, indestructible and anonymous. In those portals, all users have the same rights, so the standard hierarchies (administrators, moderators, members) of regular forums are not present, even if they are supported.
tags: anonymity peer-to-peer serverless-portal-systemDigitata is an open-source ad hoc routing network that welcomes membership and contribution by others.
tags: anonymity anonymizing-network mesh-generator mesh-routing routing-protocolqaul.net implements a redundant, open communication principle, in which wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices can directly form a spontaneous network.
tags: mesh mesh-network mesh-networks radiocommunication radio-wavesCoovaChilli is an open-source software access controller, based on the popular (but now defunct) ChilliSpot project, and is actively maintained by an original ChilliSpot contributor.
tags: access-control openwrt remote-desktop-access ubuntu