At 06:20 PM 10/4/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Zero-Knowledge Systems is reported to be shutting down their Freedom network and product. A letter has apparently been sent to subscribers with the bad news. Could someone please post a copy here? Does it say anything about the reasons? Just lack of money, or something related to 9/11?
The web sites have not been updated and are still hyping the new version 3.0 released just a few weeks ago.
This message appeared on coderpunks a few days ago -
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 09:38:15 +0100 From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> To: David Wagner <daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: coderpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: What are the main Problems of implementing a pipe-net?
David Wagner wrote:
Are you aware of the anonymous network that ZKS (Zero Knowledge Systems) has set up? It has many of the same features as Pipenet. It does not go to quite the same extremes for anonymity in the face of extremely sophisticated attackers, but they seem to have picked a pretty darn good point in the tradeoff space. Technically, ZKS seems to be pretty strong.
They scrapped their affiliate program last week - so I guess that means bye-bye network.
Cheers,
Ben.
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
... and I just got a press release from ZKS this morning trumpeting the virtues of Freedom 3.0; sounds like maybe they're abandoning the network and shifting their consumer-product focus to software alone. I looked at their website after seeing Ben's message and was struck by how much they've shifted away from selling service to consumers at $49 each, and are now targeting businesses who are allegedly concerned about their customers' alleged concern about privacy. They did appear to be willing to sell the consumer software, but it clearly wasn't the focus of their business as presented by the website. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids