MIT Develops “Untraceable” Text Messaging System

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Dubbed “Vuvuzela,” MIT’s new messaging system masks a user’s identity by flooding networks with fake data.

When the first server receives a message, it will simultaneously send out a series of “dummy” messages to other locations with encrypted destinations. Once the second server receives the actual message, it also sends out its own dummy messages at the same time it passes on the message to the third server.
 
A message that hits a destination IP that results in a large number of additional messages being generated is called a DOS attack. See smurf attacks for an example.
 
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