Total Internet Privacy

No more than two weeks ago, a large step in Internet privacy was taken. Zero-Knowledge has released their total privacy application, Freedom. Freedom lets you create pseudonyms, or "nyms" that encrypt, verify, and then send your private data. According to Zero-Knowledge, Freedom can protect and privatize you on the Web, e-mail, IRC, telnet, newsgroups, and can also prevent SPAM email. The only known protocols Freedom does not currently support are America Online, ICQ, AIM, and other such chat applications due to the information being too general. Freedom can hide your true identity from DNS, WHOIS and other Internet tools that reveal anything from an IP address to a network ID. Now the question posed is whether people with ill intent will use Freedom to protect themselves while committing illegal acts online.