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The Nym mixnet provides very strong security guarantees against this sort of surveillance. It _packetises_ and _mixes_ together IP traffic from many users inside the _Mixnet_. It does this by obfuscating and anonymising traffic patterns: hiding the signal in background noise. It aims to make passive network surveillance obselete by hiding who is talking to who at any one time at the _network level_; using an anonymous email service, even one paid for anonymously, is not enough to protect you from surveillance unless you are also hiding your IP and other metadata which can be used to deanonymise you over time. We are up against agencies and companies employing enourmous compute resources scraping the web for swathes of traffic information and piping this into Machine Learning algorithms.
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## What is it?
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## Mixnet TL;DR TODO ADD LINKS ALL THROUGHOUT
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The Mixnet is a decentralised network of nodes run by various operators in various jurisdictions around the world, who are incentivised to do so via `NYM` token rewards: cryptocurrency allows for the creation of an incentivised network of decentralised privacy architecture.
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> If you're into comparisons, the Nym mixnet is conceptually similar to other systems such as Tor, but provides improved protections against end-to-end timing attacks which can de-anonymize users. When Tor was first fielded, in 2002, those kinds of attacks were regarded as science fiction. But the future is now here.
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