links for 2008-11-16

MUTE protects your privacy by avoiding direct connections with your sharing partners in the network.
I very much like the comparison they wrote to describe the simple behaviour of the software:

Ants display collectively intelligent behavior when foraging for food or fighting off predators. Each ant in the colony acts in a rather simple way, but together they end up doing something clever, like discovering the shortest path between their ant hill and a food source. MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behavior.