Future posting and binaries

I have a few projects underway that may be of interest to others who are interested in knowing how to defeat modern surveillance technology. Where feasible I will post them here, but I may refer interested readers to other parts of the Internet that may require some explanation.

Usenet.
One of the original parts of the Internet that pre-dates the World Wide Web by quite a few years. Usenet is a collection of "newsgroups" which are open to public viewing and posting. This means that you'll typically have to wade through a lot of spam in order to find any usable information. "Binary" newsgroups are designated to be used to share files between readers. Most other newsgroups are best thought of as public bulletin boards where you can post a note and anyone on the Internet can read it and respond to it. Posting binary files to a non-binary newsgroup is considered bad form and will attract negative attention in populated forums. Type "rec.guns" into a Google search and you'll see what a newsgroup looks like. Google doesn't like binary groups, so you'll have to find a "newsreader" program (i.e. Forte Agent for M$ Windows, Pan for Linix, Mac I don't have a clue about) in order to get the most out of them. Most ISPs carry the common newsgroups, but there are free servers out there that carry all 200,000+ groups. Forte APN is cheap, www.teranews.com is free, and they both carry all of the groups. There is a newsgroups that covers just about anything you can imagine. If I have a large binary file (pictures, diagrams, etc.) I may post it on a newsgroup and send you there to find it. Warning! Some servers only keep a file available for a limited amount of time, since they have to store the file on their machines. Depending on the group and it's throughput, this could be as little as two weeks.

Torrents or Bit Torrents.
In the good old days of Napster, you could open up access to your hard drive to anybody in the world and share everything with everybody. Peer-to-peer sharing really pissed off the music industry, so they effectively shut that down. What evolved were "torrents" and "torrent servers". instead of uploading all of your files to Napster's servers, where other users could copy your files, torrent servers keep track of who is offering to share specific files (identified by a 25 character "hash file") and setting up direct peer-to-peer file sharing. Since the servers aren't storing the information being shared, they have a legal "out" when it goes to court. Piratebay is going through some hard times right now, but the system is still working. You'll need a Bit Torrent program to download files, and a good torrent server to find the torrents on- I reccomend isoHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine as a place to start. They are on a secure server (the https in the address) and they don't track searches unless you're signed in. Speed varies by how many people are sharing (seeding) a file and how many are downloading (leeching) that file as well as your Interenet connection speed. Large files are not a problem with Bittorrent, and they are available as ling as someone is willing to share them.

More later.

ranamacar