A typical conversation between two network programmers:
4:09 PM Andrew: ill be out of rehearshal at 10
me: ack
Andrew: syn-ack
not ack
the ack is me
4:11 PM me: ur protocol is very inefficient
Andrew: you are right we are on a tcp connection
4:13 PM me: fin
4:15 PM Andrew: fin-ack
4:16 PM me: we've reached a new level of 1337-ness
4:17 PM Andrew: error: expected 'ack'
rst, ack
Other uses for anonymity proxy framework
1. to anonymize and hide the network traffic for a massively-distributed artificial neural network, aka skynet