I came across this blog entry, which tries to help German citizens – and others people that are under similar circumstances – confuse the authorities that might be monitoring traffic originating from a single IP address in other to deter him (the citizen) from doing illegal things ( government stated illegal – in the German case security research).

The project named Hayneedle tries to baffle agencies monitoring Internet traffic by generating a multitude of apparently random traffic in order help you to better hide what you are actually looking for – in laymen term, generate enough “noise” so that the “signal” is hidden.

In my opinion, the idea is pretty nice, but I would think that in this case a TOR like solution would be better, as the government seeks here to monitor your IP address’s access to sites, TOR’s goal is to eliminate that ability. In any case I wish the Hayneedle project best of luck, and hope it will make the government understand how fullish they are – no big hops on this part