[91244] in Cypherpunks
Announcing availability of Crowds 1.1.1 for Win95, WinNT, Unix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aviel Rubin)
Tue Dec 2 18:20:53 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:58:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Aviel Rubin <rubin@eecs.umich.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, coderpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Aviel Rubin <rubin@eecs.umich.edu>
Crowds: A system for anonymous web transactions
Top 10 reasons why you might be interested in Crowds
10. The price - crowds is free
9. Easy to install - download the code, untar, and run.
Then, simply point your browser proxy settings to
it and you can browse anonymously
8. Public service - by running the crowds code, you provide
others with anonymity, even if you don't use it all the
time.
7. Big brother is on the net - this helps you hide
6. It's nobody's business what you are browsing
5. For this to work, there needs to be a large user community
4. Portable - now works on Windows95, WindowsNT, and all
versions of Unix we tried
3. Win Crowds T-shirts and coffee mugs - details to come
2. Take a stand for privacy
1. Don't be the last person on the Internet to obtain privacy
More information, including full source code is avilable at
http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds.
- Mike Reiter
- Avi Rubin
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