Apple withdrew its end-to-end-encrypted iCloud service from the UK market after the government demanded a backdoor, while the US Federal Bureau of Investigation recently told Forbes it wants “responsibly managed encryption,” where “U.S.tech companies can provide readable content in response to a lawful court order.”Halpin and Manning said that if a government were to ever attempt to shut NymVPN down or arrest its developers, the Nym network is decentralized, so it should be able to continue running as usual.“In theory, we should be able to get run over with a car, and the network would keep operating,” Halpin said.Who will use NymVPN?
Halpin explained that mixnets work by sending encrypted data across multiple servers while also adding “a bit of fake data” to throw off whoever may be attempting to surveil the traffic, such as an advanced AI algorithm.“Each packet is like a card, and it like shuffles the pack of cards and then sends it to the next server and sends it to the next server,” Halpin explained.
It’s actually kind of scary.”Developing privacy software amid global crackdownsA few months after their Agenda podcast appearance, Alexey Pertsev, a developer for crypto mixer Tornado Cash, was convicted of money laundering charges and sentenced for his role in developing the privacy protocol — a move that sent shockwaves through the industry.
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