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Jondos: university spin-off drives commercial version of Java Anon Proxy
Jondos GmbH, a startup company from the environment of Regensburg university launched a commercial service version of the Java Anon Proxy ('JAP') - with increasing interest from the market.
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The Java Anon Proxy was founded various years ago by scientist from Dresden and Regensburg universities mainly and it was developed as the world leading anonimizer system for web browsing and provide it as open source software. When last summer official funding program ended, Rolf Wendolsky and Thomas Dumler founded the Jondos GmbH to launch a commercial version.
Due to increasing internet surveillance in the vast majority of countries worldwide (also Germany setup a new law in the field of data retention end of 2007) perspectives seemed to be positive. The commercial version of the JAP system, named 'Jondonym' provides much higher speed and maximized anonymity through a mix cascade of three proxies in a line where each mix server is driven by a different server driver and server locations as well as driver locations are in different jurisdictions. Additionally the JonDonym system provides another important advantage: drivers of other anonymizer servers (such as TOR, 'The Onion Router') sometimes log user traffic and also may spy on login data users transfer to login to certain websites. This is not possible with the JonDonym service.
Users can buy amounts of traffic volume and select among five plans. After some months the founders realize steady growth rates. And internationalization is ante portas. Obviously, there's a significant market for privacy protection products and services.
