I sometimes wonder about the names people choose for their projects. A service to make people more anonymous, called iPredator? Even if that's not the correct capitalisation, it still sounds like some service for child molesters.

IPRED stands for "Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive". See http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/IPRED for example.

Indeed, but the negative connotations of the name remain.

Those connotations also reminds people why they need the service to begin with. You need IPREDator because of IPRED.

This has to be a joke. iPredator? seriously?

It's almost as dumb as naming a site "The Pirate Bay".

They actually argue that piracy (in the context of downloading music) is o.k. It's to hard to believe that they think using anonymity on the Internet to be a predator is o.k.

Sorry, but that page contains almost zero information:

"IPREDator is a network service that makes people online more anonymous using a VPN. it costs about 5 EUR per month and we store no traffic data. the network is under our control. not theirs. the pirate bay likes and knows real kopimism. and waffles."

What is this service? How does it work? What is the benefit over existing services?

You should check this article: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24418

Apparently IPREDator is just Relakks (the pirate bay's previous VPN service) rebranded, which itself is (was?) a PPTPD service.

IPREDator is administrated by the same corporation who run Relakks, but has their own hardware. Relakks is run by "Trygghetsbolaget i Lund AB" (approx. Safeness Corporation in Lund Ltd.) and has no affiliation with TPB. The Pirate Party did promote Relakks when it was first released.

More about Relakks at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/technology/20iht-net21.1.5...

From a legal point of view this is a total minefield.

OpenVPN or pptpd paid service?

From: http://www.itnews.com.au/Tools/Print.aspx?CIID=151988

<quote> By accessing the Web through the VPN, subscribers are able to hide their traffic data from Internet Service Providers (ISP), and bypass ISP-level censorship.

But the network isn't exactly bulletproof.

It is run by Swedish VPN company Trygghetsbolaget, which also built the once-popular Relakks service in 2006.

Unlike Relakks, IPREDator does not log its users' traffic information.

However, the services are based on the same software, including the use of 128-bit encrypted point-to-point tunnelling protocol (PPTP).

PPTP is a user-friendly VPN protocol that was first implemented on Microsoft's operating systems in 1996. Reports by security experts such as Bruce Schneier have since revealed a number of flaws in the technology, including password hashing and encryption issues.

IPREDator co-founder Peter Sunde, who also founded popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, told iTnews: "128-bit encrypted PPTP can probably be broken by someone that can eavesdrop on the traffic." </quote>