We, the 1984 Group, have developed a solution the global community has been in desperate need of for decades. In our modern time, which with every passing day seems to more closely resemble the dystopian world Orwell described in his classic novel 1984, a secure communication tool such as Utopia is more essential than ever. To begin, it is worth noting that Utopia is a third-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which means that all nodes connected to the network are equal. A peer-to-peer network is a completely decentralized system without any reliance on central servers. The main advantage of abandoning the client-server architecture is the ability to maintain performance with any arbitrarily large number of network participants. We believe that any central server is a potential threat ...
Remember all those memes about the FBI spying on you through your computer? Well, the joke is about to become a very scary reality. The US Senate, led by Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, has just given law enforcement agencies the power to access your internet browsing history without a warrant. The ground-breaking ruling came Thursday as part of a move to reauthorize the Patriot Act, which was originally passed in 2001 in response to the September 11th attacks and affords the government broad surveillance powers. Now, federal agencies such as the FBI and the CIA don’t need a probable cause in order to obtain your online browsing data. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana had proposed an amendment that would have successful...