First, this is my first post. I’ve looked around for this and haven’t really found anything on it, and thought this might be a good place to ask.
Second, understand that I have no interest in doing this or even being involved in it since I don’t understand it or know if it’s even legal, and the idea only came about because of all the recent news on traffic shaping, throttling etc and the snooping of the **AA.
could an application be developed that could take individual packet requests, be it http or otherwise, and re-route each packet out through other pcs with the same application installed? So, in other words, i make a request to view a website, it goes out through this application to another person’s machine running the same software. The packet is then altered with the new person’s IP, then sent back out for the request. The request comes back to the new person’s pc and is re routed back to me. By breaking up all the transmissions, the individual packets would be going out and coming into different IP’s, so there would be no way to track anything online since there would be no continuous strings of transmission. A simple webpage viewing session would go out through thousands of different pcs all over the cloud and back in through all those different pcs. Since there is no direct connection to any service other than from the secondary users, and only in broken transmission form, the person sending the original request would be completely anonymous right?
Since each packet only contains pieces of the end product as requested by the original requester, there would be no liability of any users on the network for each other since nobody except the invisible requester would have the entire piece of the puzzle. Sort of like how a tracker isn’t liable for giving information out on how to get to pieces of the data.
I don’t claim to know much at all on tcp other than what i’ve read online. It just bothers me that the big companies are threatening entire systems based on their own financial agenda. It’s all the non pirated content on the web that is best transmitted via p2p that will die if something isn’t done to prevent throttling that bothers me.
I guess this is really on my mind since I really want to download Ubuntu tonight and try out the new gnome 2.22, but as I’m with Com…. I know that my speed will be slowed to a halt because my upload speed will be non existent. So I’ll be forced to download all the new software via ftp which god knows how long that will take.
More or less curious if this is a. legal, b. already out there?
