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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Jeremy Hsu over at IEEE Spectrum brings news of a routing system [ieee.org] that can keep your data from ever entering the tubes of a nation you don't trust:

Whenever someone sends a website request or email, Internet data packets crossing the world can run afoul of data censorship or modification in certain countries, such as China. A new system provides a way for Internet users to route their data around specified “forbidden” countries and gives proof of whether or not the routing succeeded, its inventors revealed last week.

The Alibi Routing [umd.edu] system relies on a peer-to-peer network to relay data packets around specified forbidden countries on their way to a final destination. In this case, the “peers” are other Internet users running the Alibi Routing software. The system provides proof of successful or unsuccessful routing by calculating whether a packet was at a specific geographic location far enough away from the undesired countries so that data could not have passed through.

Which is all fine and good but what if the country you trust the least is your own?

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