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'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document

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Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?

"Terrorist" -- as everyone knew it would become -- is now shorthand for anyone undesirable or anyone targeted for any reason.

Re: 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document

#12
post #4

Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?

> I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume!

I don't always hack, but when I do, I wear a balaclava

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/all-computer-hackers-wear...

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#14
post #9

Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it: > Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network? > Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users? At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.

This could be countered by setting up a lot of fast nodes. Stealthier malicious nodes that selectively drop or tar-pit traffic though would be harder to fight...

Re: 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document

#15
post #9

Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it: > Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network? > Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users? At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.

At the end they debate whether killing Tor would be bad, since if they could exploit it they'd have all the "bad guys" in one place.

Re: 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document

#17
post #9

Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it: > Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network? > Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users? At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.

If anything this just encourages me to keep my non-exit relay up as much as possible.

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They actually saw it as their job to make the experience of anyone using Tor difficult.

Isn't that kind of like the police deciding to make the roads full of potholes because that would make it more difficult for bank robbers to get away in a car.

Then again, considering the quality of the roads these days, maybe they are way ahead of me on that.

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post #10
post #4

Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?

It's a powerpoint, doubtless put together by a middle-manager who thought some clipart would spice things up. Internal presentations at pretty much every company I've worked for have been just as tacky.

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