Project Meshnet aims to build a censorship-free alternative to the Internet

July 30, 2012
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(Credit: Project Meshnet)

Imagine an Internet without censorship, an Internet built out of like-minded peers and secure connections. That’s the goal of Project Meshnet, PC World reports.

Currently, each node connects to a couple other nodes by manually configuring links over an IPv4 network. The ultimate goal is to have every node connected directly by physical means; be it wire, optical cable or radio waves.”

An experimental network by the name of Hyperboria, a network that apparently bears a resemblance to the “Internet of the late 1980s,” is already in place. More: Project Meshnet site.