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Check out Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking. It's great that you're interested in building technologies that can enhance freedom of speech, and there's excellent work that you can contribute to and put this kind of thought to use. Check out some of the projects in the list at the bottom of the Wikipedia article on Anonymous P2P and see if any of them catch your eye. Definitely start networking with other people who are doing this kind of work, learning about various attacks that these networks are vulnerable to, and the efficiency/security trade-offs involved in the engineering of them.

Many of those project sites have a "get involved" link you should check out.

My initial dismissal above came from the belief that file sharing is in a rather good position at the moment. Private torrent trackers are AMAZING and pirate-hunting lawyers tend to have few incentives to prey on anything but the public networks. Yes, people who are ignorant of the risks of using public networks sometimes see negative consequences. The same can be said of anything. The solution is education, not revolution. We have solutions that work very well already, and even if all the nightmare legislation being discussed at the moment were to be passed into law it would hardly budge the actions of the educated community of sharers. No more public DNS pointing to your private tracker? There's an addon for that which keeps track of sites that have been taken down and handles the address resolution without involving the public DNS system. And there are many more ways of stepping over most legislation they would dare to implement as far as piracy goes.

I think your original sentiments are awesome. We need smart people thinking about better ways to keep our freedom of speech. But don't try to be a lone superman, there are a lot of groups who have very valuable experience and have had to deal with various kinds of attacks already. Join them, make them stronger, learn from their experience, create something cool. Mesh networking could be a fun focus for someone who wants to totally sidestep the system. Take it a step further and read some electronic warfare books to think about how a mesh network might respond to jamming attempts. There are so many cool topics out there.

> our beloved meritocracy

It's not a meritocracy. It never has been. Re: Programmed Inequality.

Ha, I knew right away from the title this was about Sabu. Everyone who hasn't should read We are Anonymous if you are at all interested in the rise and fall of anonymous and lulzsec. Sabu plays a pivotal role in the events that unfold, eventually culminating with his arrest and subsequent informing.