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OmniCleaner

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Dragan Espenschied
Andreas Milles
Alvar Freude

 

 



 

The Internet is the single most powerful medium for free expression and speech in the history. This freedom is endangered by many initiatives that are trying to block access to content for certain audiences. For example the inhabitants of a whole state.

The notion is that Internet traffic needs to be monitored and information has to be filtered to protect Internet users from pornography, racism, crime and every other non-valid content. With a filter system installed at local providers, it's easy to block any information that could be "illegal" in a national context from the international medium Internet.

State agencies promote restricted access and are even threatening to sue providers who are not willing to cooperate. Providers claim that it is technically not possible or too expensive to install a filter system that blocks access to unwanted information on a large scale. There is no discussion around the topic of informational freedom, the possible abuse of a once installed filter system or the destruction of the potential the Internet offers in its current state.

 

Intelligence services want to read emails, monitor each internet user and a lot more.

ODEM.org aims to put a new view to the discussion by presenting an off-the-shelf information blocking, filtering, manipulating and and spy out solution called OmniCleaner that

- easily handles the amount of traffic a typical provider has to deal withcc

- can be controlled by a centralized agency, for example a possible future German Ministry of Internet Censorship

- offers all the nasty features a police state would like to have in a comfortable interface that gives people with no Internet experience (like the typical politician) the possibility to control all net traffic

- can also keep under surveillance encrypted websites

 

- is able to forward arbitrary emails over a secure connection to a centralized agency

- offers the possibility to change the content of every affected web page: partly or complete

Our machine has two Ethernet plugs: In one you put the cable with the complete, free, filthy and revolting Internet. From the other plug you receive a clean, child-safe, legal net that is an ideal surrounding for e-Commerce -- undisturbed from these annoying people that want to do something else than buying your products.

So, purchase OmniCleaner and finally live in a beautiful world. (Purchase price negotiable.)