Could JonDonym not be used by the government for control?
In principle, any service could be used by the government for control and surveillance. For this reason, transparency, clarity, and trust of the service’s function are vital to the user. Since there is no central instance involved in the mix concept, all mixes involved in a cascade would need to work together in order to track a connection. Because of this, any kind of observation of the Internet user, including from the side of the government, is not made easier, rather more difficult by using JonDonym. In contrast to all other anonymization systems (also Tor and I2P, for example), the last mix, that is the exit server to the “normal” Internet, is not able to follow a user’s steps on the network layer: each Internet request (simplified: each call of a web site) is individually anonymized and cannot be linked to a specific user or other web sites that the same user has visited – as far as your browser configuration is correct (e.g. you are using JonDoFox). Of course, such anonymization
