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Vuvuzela: The Noisy MIT Network Designed to Outsmart Hackers

Science

A Dutch-born researcher at MIT and his colleagues have built an experimental anonymous messaging system named after the deafening World Cup horn, designed to protect users’ privacy by burying their real communications under a constant flood of decoy traffic. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an experimental anonymous communications system named Vuvuzela, designed to make it significantly harder for hackers, businesses and government agencies to monitor people’s online activity. The project was created by Jelle van den Hooff, a Dutch researcher who moved to MIT in 2010, working alongside fellow MIT researchers David Lazar, Matei Zaharia and…

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