Prison for encrypting messages? That’s a funny comment. Use of strong encryption is legal, as long as you don’t export the software for it to certain other countries. Doing it with Windoze probably wouldn’t be a good idea, though (see keyloggers, for one).
Properly informed use of the technologies that I mentioned will keep others from tracing or encrypting messages. But if, say, defense had a reason to be interested enough, that would be different.
Information on encryption and cracking can be found in the discussion archives related to the following sites, but some prerequisite learning time would be recommended.
A few other sites chronicle research in cryptography and/or information security in general.
But let’s say that all that you’re after is keeping visited sites from logging your IP. Learning to use a single proxy built for that purpose will do it, if no criminal or libellous activity is involved (subpoenas sometimes required). Using, say, ten of them that do strong encryption while also doing mixing and chaining...now that’s a whole different game. Yes, a few of the more educated terrorists have probably used them (thanks to our corporations and universities for educating and hiring them), but so have many others.
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But let’s say that all that you’re after is keeping visited sites from logging your IP. Learning to use a single proxy built for that purpose will do it, if no criminal or libellous activity is involved
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Exactly, Nahanni seems to think wanting to maintain privacy means you are doing something illegal and the inept government is going to try to track you down. This thread is about spying and snooping, not hiding because you did anything wrong.