The wonderful world of invisible profile - anonymous network system

Individuals in a society are sometimes challenged when they express the point of view that does not comply with what general public believes in. However, it is also important, especially in terms of human right, that every individuals have right to say whatever they want - in other words, the freedom of speech need to be guaranteed, as long as it does not harm any other's right. It would be ideal when the right of personal freedom and necessity to restrict the freedom to avoid interrupting other's right somehow self organize without requiring the controlling measure from outside.

What about inside of the networking system? Since the communication is the most important factor, the users of the network system are required to have clear profile to achieve their goal. Without knowing who, where and what, there's no way to connect hundreds and thousands of users in the network. It is such an irony though, it is hard to maintain freedom of speech because it is so easy to track down the profile data of certain user. (ISP, IP address etc.) If certain user has different point of view that goes against public policy and expresses or behaves against it, the adversary of that user (usually authority) can track him or her down to enforce the law.

The idea of anonymity can be reconsidered in the networking system. To achieve the freedom of speech (that is the argument for the most anonymous system), the well designed anonymous networking system is necessary. Since the network system requires the origin and destination, most of the anonymous system have their unique design to achieve level of anonymity while delivering data from A to B


This section of the research looks into the idea of anonymity inside of the network, and how each system employed various system to protect the privacy.