This new Tor alternative hides your messages in a stream of spam

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it doesn’t have much in the way of competition, but that’s about to change thanks to a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The team has developed a new system of sending virtually untraceable messages by essentially creating a bunch of spam, and then hiding the encrypted messages inside. Known as Vuvuzela, the system gets its name from those noisy devices that you see at soccer games, in reference to the “noise” that the system creates to hide your messages.