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Re: AT&T Research "Crowds" -- Perl web anonymity proxy -- needs users
Yeah, that license agreement was forced on us. We were
grateful they let us give away all the source code.
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> Subject: AT&T Research "Crowds" -- Perl web anonymity proxy -- needs users
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:30:05 -0800
> From: John Gilmore <[email protected]>
> Status: R
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> It has a screwy "non-commercial use only, AT&T gets everything, you
> get nothing" license, but otherwise it looks interesting.
>
> John
>
> From: Avi Rubin <[email protected]>
>
> John,
>
> You may remember that at Crypto, I described the Crowds system to you.
> The system is now robust and up and running, and we have ported it to
> windows and unix platforms, so just about anyone should be able to use
> it. In fact, if there is such a thing as Perl for macintosh, I'm sure
> it would work on that platform too.
>
> We are very interested in getting more users of our system. As it is
> intended to provide privacy to web users, I thought that perhaps it is
> something that you and EFF would be interested in. Do you think you
> could put a link to the Crowds page on the EFF web site? Anything
> else you can do to help increase the usage would be great, because our
> system has the property that the more poeple use it, the more secure
> it is. Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> The Crowds page is: http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds
>
> Thanks,
> Avi
>
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