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Pirate Bay Treasure: Total Web Encryption for Privacy

Posted Jul 10, 08 2:46 AM CDT in Business,  Technology 

(Newser) – The founders of hugely popular torrent site Pirate Bay have announced ambitious plans to develop technology to encrypt all web traffic to ensure users absolute privacy, reports NewTeeVee. "Transparent end-to-end encryption for the internet"—or IPETEE—would protect all information sent from or received by a PC, including instant messaging to video or music downloads, from prying eyes.

The Swedish team, which has long been a thorn in the side of copyright holders everywhere, has a poor track record when it comes to following through on big projects. But this one may get a major push to completion. Sweden passed a law last month allowing a government agency to snoop on web traffic, and the Pirates are aiming to get IPETEE ready before it takes effect in January.

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The Pirate Bay team say IPETEE is still in early stages of development, but they hope to have it ready for January 2009.   ((c) francescopozzi)
The founders of wildly popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay are working on a project to encrypt the whole Web.   ((c) spcoon)
IPETEE is likely to be implemented as an add-on to Windows and OS X, encrypting the user's data automatically.   ((c) dev null)
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