MIT Researchers Develop “Untraceable” Text Messaging

[Maura]

BGR writes that a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a text-messaging system that they claim “provides a strong mathematical guarantee of user anonymity, while, according to experimental results, permitting the exchange of text messages once a minute or so.”

The MIT researchers have called the new system “Vuvuzela,” which is the name of that really loud instrument that can be heard from the crowds at many sports events worldwide. The name of the system is actually pretty apt, as, just like a crowd full of vuvuzelas, it creates a lot of extra “noise,” and therefore making it almost impossible to find the source of one single vuvuzela’s noise.

The system works by sending message via three different servers that each unwrap three separate encryption levels, making it more difficult to intercept a message and view the sender or receiver of the message.

Source: MIT researchers create 'untraceable' text messaging that's even more secure than Tor

 

[Bacchus]

Just what we need - even more ways for enemies of freedom to communicate their evil plans and recruit more agents of destruction while avoiding detection by the forces of good....