Marabunta (software)

Marabunta is a fully distributed software application for anonymous P2P. The main goal is the fight against internet censorship and assuring the freedom of speech. It is a peer-to-peer platform for information exchange among nodes in an anonymous way based on several communication algorithms called "Order and Chaos" which can be found in massive social organizations such as ant colonies. The project was founded at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, developed and promoted by students of computing engineering although development teams and users from many different places have shown interest, perhaps attracted by the ideological aims of the project. The software is available in Spanish and English, the website is also available in English. Marabunta uses the Qt graphical widget toolkit, allowing it to be used on both Linux and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GNU General Public License, Marabunta is free software. Marabunta is an implementation of the ideas explained in the "Free Nets project " and it has been developed with these ideas in mind: Avoiding censure: Communication between people avoiding central servers is allowed, so it is free from censure attacks, which are commonly launched by many governments and corporations that want to control the communications. Anonymity: A degree of anonymous communication is made possible, such that information can be accessed without knowledge of its original source. Motives and development: Marabunta is the first project of this kind developed in Spain (first version released in 2005). Still, the software has potential use by people anywhere in the world, especially in countries with little or no freedom of speech. There are many potential services that can be run on top of Marabunta. Text message interchange is the first service. It could be taken as a platform for telegram distribution, where each computer in the net works as a host and as a server. As a host: messages are sent, active nodes are sought, etc.