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    Comment #40163560

    This is a question I always find really interesting. There are still a lot of alternative systems circulating - often in the mid-latency space - which aim to solve design issues of…

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    Comment #40162391

    I would absolutely agree that there's journalists who get significant power and protection from their proximity to major institutions and centres of power. Tor is useful for protec…

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    Comment #40162234

    Aye absolutely - some links here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744367/tor-by-ben-c...

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    Comment #40161657

    Also - it's completely free open access, but you can also buy a copy here if you like spending money: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/tor/

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    Comment #40161495

    Those are fair points. I would argue that it's not the tech that's weak, but that the protection that powerful people get from institutions, local networks, status in their communi…

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    Comment #40161392

    Fully open access PDF version free here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-D... Though do consider buying it if you like it!

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    Comment #40161373

    There's a lot in the book about this - it depends what you mean. Tor has a lot of social and technical design elements that try as best they can to minimise this risk. It would be …

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    Comment #40161251

    (with the understanding that I'm only speaking for what I found, not for the Tor project or the relay community) Most of the people I spoke to saw themselves as providing a service…

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    Comment #40158677

    Cheers for this, I'm the author - AMA! :) A big motivation in writing the book was to feature the voices of the people we often don't hear from in the Tor community (which is why t…

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    Comment #23360142

    https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~bjc63/Crime_is_boring.pdf