“Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack. Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership.”

If Google’s aim is to defend you from attack, why won’t it comment on the partnership with the NSA? One of the arguments web users employ to rationalize big businesses like Google keeping copies of all their web data and transactions is that there are so many billions and billions of pieces of information who could make sense of what one individual person was doing? We imagine our emails and transactions to be lost in all that data like the Arc of the Covenant sequestered in a large army warehouse at the conclusion of the movie RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC, never to be found again. But Google makes sense of trillions of pieces of data on the web already, and serves them up to you at your command. And who better to do an even more targeted search than the NSA?

Is it good news that they are teaming up to thwart the Chinese, who are also after your information? We believe the only good news is we don’t have to live in a world where all of our data and communications are stored outside of our physical control and thus subject to prying by either businesses and governments we trust, or those we do not.

Shazzle.com provides a p2p network in a community setting which allows you to establish groups and share content among friends and group members in complete privacy. You can choose settings so your transmissions go peer to peer without ever hitting even the Shazzle servers, so not even your host will know what you are up to. Call it one small step toward restoring privacy to communications.

Shazzle expects to launch a private email service this Spring which will allow you to send mail without any copies to Shazzle, or anyone else but the intended recipient. Call this a second step toward restoring privacy. There will be more.

We ask for your help in letting others know of this free service, and also letting us know of any other services that increase privacy, or blogs that deal with it so we may help get the word out.

The lines between private and public information have become blurred in the age of the Web. Large corporations and government organizations collect voluminous data on most actions we take on our computers. The client server architecture of the Web plays right into their hands because all messages on the web travel from the computers where they originate, through servers owned for the most part by large corporations where they are copied and stored, and only then passed on to the intended recipient. Did you know that Google keeps copies of emails passed through its gmail service? So do Yahoo and MSN. It is the way the system works. Likewise Google’s YouTube keeps records of what each user has watched, when, and for how long, and now Viacom has gotten a court order that allows it to review those records. So if you’ve ever been on YouTube not one, but at least two large corporations as well as the court that has jurisdiction in the case will know what you were doing there. In much the same way web companies implant cookies on your computer to track your profile information and what you are doing on the web. How might these corporations use this information for their own profit? Well consider that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco (confirm this) recently turned over thousands of names of suspected dissident Chinese bloggers to the Chinese Government. Now some of these people are jailed for exercising free speech while Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco continue to turn over user names to the Chinese government to protect their business arrangements with the Chinese.

Big Brother can be stopped in his tracks.

Peer Fusion LLC believes that free political speech can advance the cause of freedom, and free commercial speech can advance the cause of equity. We reject the client server architecture of the World Wide Web that puts the servers in the service of big government (including Red China) and big business. We refuse to cede the field to those businesses that put profits before people. We determined that there had to be a better way, and, with a team of engineers, we have developed a peer-to-peer internet communications protocol that takes a hammer to the central command and control architecture of the servers and places the control instead with the individual user at the peer (PC) level. It is simple yet elegant: move the organizational and tracking tasks (the computer logic) from the server to the individual peer by creating an index and data managing capability at the peer level that persists in communities.

What this means to the layperson is that you can send an email with this architecture directly to the intended recipient without the message passing through any servers at all. No one but you and your recipient will have a copy, not even us at Peer Fusion who facilitate the message. Our application server merely gives you the address of your recipient. You become your own postman, delivering the message directly.

You could watch videos with this technology as well without Peer Fusion knowing what videos you accessed. Viacom could then serve court orders on Peer Fusion until the cows came home without discovering from us what you are watching because we do not know. We do not ever get a copy or record of it. It is your own private business, not ours, not Viacom’s, and not Red China’s. Out of the same respect for your privacy we do not use cookies, nor does our architecture allow anyone else to use them, either. You control what information you give to the sites you access.

This decentralized structure presents a nightmare scenario to censors since there is no central spot to control as in server based architecture. The index of content at the peer level presents a moving target to censors because if one peer is shut down a user can easily be redirected to one of many other peers and connect to uncensored information this way. There are no fixed ‘sites’ to shut down, but merely free information flowing between hundreds, or thousands, or even millions of users so that if one is chopped down many more can spring up in its place.

In summary, the data managing capabilities Peer Fusion has built into its peer to peer technology can bring privacy to the internet by keeping your personal information and habits off servers owned by large corporations who use this information for their own ends. Only you and the people you interact with will have information on what you are doing. In short the permanent ‘wiretap’ that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others have built into the web architecture will dissolve, putting you back in charge.

Peer Fusion has licensed this technology to Shazzle LLC to get it into user’s hands. Shazzle has recently launched its beta that allows filesharing including very large files, IM, and community search and creation. Email will be coming soon.

We hope you are as excited about these new developments as we are. We are convinced that as privacy erodes, so does freedom. We are most free when we are in control of our personal space, our personal decisions, and our personal information. Shazzle’s Peer Fusion technology will put this control back in your hands as you access the internet. Just say no to the corporations and governments that want to track your every move. They should only know what you choose to tell them. If we wean ourselves from the Web and its client server technology that makes spying so easy, that will be all they will be able to know.

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