My little bit is to help anyone to gain secure anonymous communication.
Because even if: Governments may do bad laws, we can still protect ourselves to let those evil laws run dry. And additionally: If 46% of the worlds population does not have access to privacy rights. But I beleive, they should have it. And maybe this can help them to gain it at least a little bit.
So, if others spy on us, why don’t we use spy methods to get away from this?
The classic Spy Dead Drop
In the physical world spies still use dead drops to exchange information or items. You may want to refer to the Wikipedia page for more details Dead drop – Wikipedia. Or the german version is a little more detailed Toter Briefkasten – Wikipedia
So, the “classic” dead drop is a unobtrusive and/or hidden place. Like a hole in a tree in the woods, a Book in a Library or a loose brick in a wall. If you want to a Geo Cache (Geocaching – Wikipedia) is also a kind of dead drop.
Spies use such places in a manner, that (hopefully) only the communication partners know were these places are. Maybe they do check or deposit things there at a fixed time. Or they use other signals to tell each other that they placed something ito the dead drop. That could be something like an ad in the newspaper or sitting in a cafe with a red hat on or whatever.
In this way they can exchange information. Without ever meeting each other or maybe even more important never been seen together.
Adptin the priciple to
The general idea of this project is to transfer this principle into the digital world. There are attempts to do this like using one mailer account without sending mails but just leaving drafts.
But this is pretty unhandy. What we need are hidden digital places, that can be accessed only by those who know the right coordinates.
And we need a messenger client. A messenger clientthat can easily put information ito this place. And that can pull information out of this place. Without ever revealing who is visiting this place. And that does not know or use the users identity, location or other meta data.