Wired ran an interesting piece about kaos.theory’s recent project, a fully secure, anonymous operating system bootable from CD called Anonym.OS. It runs on OpenBSD, an open source Unix variant well-known for its security features. It also makes use of the Tor network of encrypted servers for anonymous browsing.

In this age of hyper-aggressive media corporations and spying governments, these are great tools. I don’t need them myself, really, but I’m glad these things are out there. But one thing I noticed about Tor’s funding: it has been sponsored by DARPA and the Office of Naval Research. Doesn’t that completely contradict its mission of anonymity from prying governments?

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