Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
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Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, who is currently serving For running a free market. It's fucked up.
Stop trying to rewrite history. He was convicted of running the market, but the reason the judge threw the book at him is because he tried to have five people killed. >Because it is contested, the Court must make appropriate factual findings if it is to include it. The standard by which I do that is by a preponderance of the evidence. Ulbricht's directed violence here is and relates to the murders for hire which he i…
Who's trying re-write history here?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020239/http://www.thegua...
You're omitting very important details.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#33Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
In my experience, Tor runs about as well as ProtonVPN with their "Secure Core" option enabled (which adds routing through an additional hop located somewhere in the EU). Tor has pretty good throughput, I think the problem is the the additional latency that comes from routing through multiple nodes.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it wasn't for that. He was never charged with that and it is likely that those messages were sent by FBI agents trying to frame him. Or are you just trying to manipulate public opinion?
> likely that those messages were sent by FBI agents trying to frame him Do you have anything from a legitimate source on this? I'd like to read more. My understanding of this entire thing came largely from brief news reports on it.
You can read about the corrupt FBI agents here: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/ross-ulbrichts-defense-focuses...
I recall reading that the FBI had admin access to the site at the time the incriminating messages were sent, which I'm still looking for a source for, so it's quite likely that the messages were sent by the corrupt agents. Particularly when you consider the libertarian ideology around Ross and the site in general. Soliciting a murder would be completely out of character.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#35Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
It's not too slow these days. I routinely browse over Tor, including watching YouTube videos, and it doesn't feel substantially different to just my ordinary ADSL connection.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine what a mess the assassination insurance industry would be given how much of a mess that the health insurance industry is.
We (most of us) take it for granted but I'm pretty sure quite a few people are scared to death, dead man walking due to drug deals gone bad, extortion, blood feuds, kidnappings and so on. I'm sure super rich people have these conversations, just we discuss finding a cheap apartment. My view is that if someone wants you dead, it's just a matter or time, or price. Maybe the Pope and POTUS are out of reach, the rest if…
There is an entire industry for kidnapping, ransom, and extortion insurance.
Honestly, most kidnappings are parent without custody snagging their own kid. Rich kid kidnappings are a thing though.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#37There is also I2P which is just like Tor but unlike it is designed to withstand the traffic from bittorrent clients (useful for people living in dorms on in America) and can also tunnel UDP (unlike Tor which can only tunnel TCP).
That being said, I really like the new onion-v3 protocol that Tor added as it moves from the outdated 1024-bit rsa + sha1 addresses with 1024-bit DH and AES-128 to the state-of-the-art ed25519 for addresses and handshake as well as chacha20-poly1305 for encryption.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, who is currently serving For running a free market. It's fucked up.
Stop trying to rewrite history. He was convicted of running the market, but the reason the judge threw the book at him is because he tried to have five people killed. >Because it is contested, the Court must make appropriate factual findings if it is to include it. The standard by which I do that is by a preponderance of the evidence. Ulbricht's directed violence here is and relates to the murders for hire which he i…
Didn't he try to have five people killed only after they went after him?
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#39Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
Tor's slowness (often overstated) is more about hop count and geographic diversity than relay/exit node count.
Re: Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)
#40Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
It has been getting faster lately, and I mean last couple of years. Or maybe my tolerance grew from using LTE but I'm pretty sure it has been getting faster.