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Another essay to read on the subject is "Attacked from Within" http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000 .

I think the main reason is that communities grow only so big and then they turn into a society. Users recognized in a community will lose their recognition that evaporates into the mediocre society.

While I really like all the properties of this wonder substance, I'd be more cautious about the possible negative effects. With plastics we have a big problem with pollution (Big Pacific Garbage Patch comes to mind), and toxicity (BPA, etc).

What will be the problems with graphene?

Don't get me wrong, I want all the positive things it is promising, but I am worrisome that we are going to head-rush into it like it happened with pesticides, plastics, and others.

With programs and ideas like these ( http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article201702.ece ) there is a permanent log of everything. I'm tempted to think that companies are hoarding all possible data to be mined so they'd look more appealing for revenue from the government.

I think it's yet another reason not to use anything on the Internet without some sort of alternative vpn network.

I also would not pay anybody to store the music. It's just cheaper to buy two external hard drives and keep them in sync.

As time goes by I have noticed that most of what I have downloaded is becoming extra baggage to log a round. I keep going back to the same set of things to listen as nothing really good seems to coming out in the genre I like (ambient, electronica).

In short, I perceive digital music as the money pit not that's not worth it.

I am not sure it works like this. You can only listen on communication if you are the first node (you will know the contents, where traffic comes from and the destination) or the last node (you will know the contents and the destination but not the source). And onion routing should mean that encryption layers are peeled off as communication travels through the nodes.

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...

Thank you for the link. Looks like a good read.

My idea of the network like this is more about privacy than anonymity. And it shouldn't be too hard to set it up. I am just bouncing the idea around to see what others think of it.

Unfortunately most people don't care or don't care to know.

On a side note, why not to have our own separate internet? I've been thinking about OpenVPN tunnels between dedicated servers and letting users connect to them over vpn links, of course. This would form a closed network with services inside. It's a sad commentary, but having privacy friendly network sounds like a breath of fresh air just 20 years after the Internet took off.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think all communication between the TOR nodes is encrypted. So if you run a node locally (as you should) nothing is revealed. However if you just configure your browser's proxy settings to use outside node all bets are off. Everything should be encrypted from entry node to exit node.

Plain-text requirement is almost offensive.

However, I've been toying around with the idea to link bunch of dedicated servers with OpenVPN tunnels and let users connect to them via OpenVPN server (tls) also.

The idea is to form a closed or separate network with services and have it be privacy friendly network.

The main point I am trying to make is that we the people should be able to, and be allowed to run and manage our own network that isn't wiretapped constantly by for-profit intel contractors.