How not to design a privacy system: reflections on the process behind the Freedom product

The Freedom Network was also designed with “being able to get there from here” in mind. Although it would have been technically easier to implement if we had access to our own private network, over which we could control all traffic and protocols, the reality of the situation is that we would be deploying an overlay network over the existing Internet. This more easily allows additions to the (already worldwide) Freedom Network, and enables its incremental growth.