Anonymous Network Club
ANC
The purpose of our club is to let our members be active in the research, development and issues arising from anonymous networks that are currently active or being discussed.
Anonymous networks are a present issue as they allow people world-wide to speak freely against a big censorship agent, such as a government like china. They are essential to whistle-blowers, activists trying to help out a minority suppressed and other entities. They are also sponsored by government agencies who use them as well.
Our priority will be to familiarize our members with the knowledge of these networks and how they work.
Our main theme will be to discuss and research issues arising from each of these networks, such as security, privacy and performance trade-offs that each of the network's contains.
Our goal will be to be active in the research and development of these networks, most of these networks are Open Source projects that require volunteers for continuing development, we would like RIT to offer continuing support to them.
By providing new people with knowledge of these networks we can efficiently come up with new ideas and possibly implement them. Most of the networks such as Tor, can be implemented in a small private scale to try out the ideas and test them against performance, attacks, and other issues.
If we are granted a budget we could sponsor our most contributing members to take trips to conferences held by the Electronic Frontier Foundating (EFF www.eff.org) and Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP, www.cfp2007.org) which sponsors most of these anonymous networks. Along with the budget we would purchase servers that are owned by the club to be used for the research and development of these networks.
Anonymous networks open new opportunies to students for example, Google offers a Summer of Code program that pays students to work for an open source project such as Tor. Their progress is used by Google in the employement process.