content: A Guide to Network Wizardry and How to Beat the System Brothers, sisters, friends -  in the fight for the free flow of information, we are winning. Access to the internet is a basic human right. The decentralized and open internet is here to stay. The ability to remain anonymous and to share ideas without constraint is tantamount to the common good of the people. Today a schizoid hivemind of internet pundits claim that no anonymity exists on the internet. Forget those fallacious claims. There are many ways to remain anonymous, encrypt and obfuscate internet traffic, and completely hide your internet activities from your ISP and from anyone else. In fact, fhere are a number of fundamental technologies that are built into the internet protocols specifically designed to encrypt digital traffic and mask IP addresses. The ability to remain anonymous and private on the internet depends on the user's activities. Those who behave a certain way on line and use certain services will have no privacy.  While those who behave another way and use other services, can be very very hard to identify, harder to identify now in many ways then ever in communications history. The purpose of this guide is to explain and introduce easy and powerful ways to remain private on the open, decentralized internet. Here is what you can do to beat the system: VPNs The easiest solution is to use a private VPN to encrypt your torrenting. The ISP can only log that your connecting to the VPN. The swarm can only see your VPN assigned IP. This shouldn't be too hard; and most VPN providors will have step-by-step guides somewhere on their sites. Use a private VPN. Don't use a free VPN. Use OpenVPN. There are numerous benefits to having all of your traffic encrypted. Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? How To Make VPNs Even More Secure Make sure your DNS requests are going through your VPN connection with DNS Leak Test The added bonus to using a VPN is that you can encrypt all your internet activity, not just your web traffic. Anonymizing Networks Anonymizing networks such as Tor allow users to access Internet services privately by using a series of routers to hide the client's IP address from the server.  VPS It's a bit more involved but you can use a VPS as a seedbox. List of VPS providers that accept Bitcoin Extensive list of seedbox providers Kimsufi Feral Hosting Usenet Usenet has been around forever, mostly full of old people but old people usually have interesting things to share. If you do try Usenet, apart from the fast file-sharing, it is worth checking out the usenet newsgroups. Free Anonymous Usenet Downloading With Just a Web Browser http://just4today.net/ http://usenetstorm.com/ http://www.astraweb.com/ http://www.giganews.com/ http://nzbindex.nl/ http://binsearch.info/ Retroshare Retroshare is a special little program, but can be little tricky. It really should be used as a genuine friend to genuine friend network (F2F Networks). But if you do have interesting friends, online or in person, Retroshare offers encrypted communication and filesharing. RetroShare: secure communications with friends Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming Unofficial Retroshare Wiki: Adding Friends If you need help with this, send me a PM. I2P I2P is very interesting. There has been a renewed push to get more seeds going; so I think the I2P network is about to go through a new growth phase. Definitely something to have a second look at and keep an eye on. It is also Open Source, p2p and free. I think it has the most long term value but at this point needs another wave of early adopters. I2P popularity has been growing and has modern features like the ability to torrents within this darknet. TOR - The Onion Router TOR is the most infamous darknet and is a controversial and very successful anonymizing network that originated from the United States Naval Research Laboratory. TOR is already widely used. History of TOR Additional Information and links FreeNet Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. FreeNet source code More FreeNet links Freenet's explicit goal is to promote freedom of speech on the internet. Freenet is not as widely used as other darkweb networks but it is extremely secure and few vulnerabilities since it has been highly refined since its first release in 2000. Essential Browser Plugins Inspired by this article Here are a list of essential plugins to prevent scripts running the background of websites from tracking you. Ghostery - A great plugin dedicated to blocking unwanted objects imbedded in web pages. chrome // firefox Privacy Badger -- From the website - Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.  Ublock - Fast and lightweight adblocker. "The mice will win in the end, but in the meantime the cats will be well fed." Bruce Schnier Keep Fighting the Good Fight!! Evolve Beyond Their Reach