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Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by flawawa2 »

narag wrote: post #18
redthrowaway wrote: post #11

It's an interesting question. If Project Vigilant had compromised Tor, I'd expect there to be quite a few pedophiles who had used it to share cp getting busted. I'm not aware of any such incidents, let alone many. I imagine that the government wouldn't want to give away that they had it compromised, and so would simply use the information to compose a list of people to watch for slip ups, but one would expect to see…

I find funny that I was re-reading a novel this morning during the commute, about a WWII cryptographer and arrived at the point were he sees that the warning in every secret document was "never take any action that could reveal the enemy that we can break their encryption".

Title of that novel please, sounds interesting!

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by flawawa2 »

Tichy wrote: post #49

I didn't understand the part where Wikileaks and Tor are supposed to have different goals. I thought the point of Wikileaks was to publish information anonymously - surely Tor would be suitable to help with that (Tor as it is supposed to work)? I must admit that I am simply too chicken to use Tor. In Germany I think it can actually get you in trouble if some pedophile exits through your node. Also last I checked, the…

Using Tor does not mean that you are an exit node. You have to actually set that up and it is warning you about it. Using Tor as a client only is safe and secure.

If people do bad things through your exit node, you are in danger regardless where you live. The law enforcement must be aware of what your server was doing. Its understanding varies from place to place.

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by narag »

smcl wrote: post #41
narag wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find funny that I was re-reading a novel this morning during the commute, about a WWII cryptographer and arrived at the point were he sees that the warning in every secret document was "never take any action that could reveal the enemy that we can break their encryption".

Cryptonomicon, perhaps? I loved that book

So do I. I don't re-read books often.

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by flawawa2 »

comice wrote: post #38

Remember that Zed Shaw was "a top qualified soldier in the US Army". Maybe Zed is a bad actor in the pay of the US Army and this article is an attempt to discredit Tor for their benefit! ;)

Sounds like I must disregard anything he says or does because I do not like him having been trained to murder.

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by loup-vaillant »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #30
axod wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So much name calling and playground idiocy. Just looking at a sample of the tweets made my head hurt. Surely most of us don't use Tor because 1. It's slow as hell 2. We're not doing anything illegal or trying to get past censorship

Well I did try to use Tor to get past censorship(I'm in China) and it's not effective here unless you already know someone outside the Chinese network to connect to (that is not a public ip). They (Tor) are losing their fight. IMO

Suppose the FreedomBox catches on, and there's a Tor node on half of them. That could represents millions of Tor exit nodes within 5 years.

That should turn the tide, don't you think?

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by narag »

flawawa2 wrote: post #61
narag wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find funny that I was re-reading a novel this morning during the commute, about a WWII cryptographer and arrived at the point were he sees that the warning in every secret document was "never take any action that could reveal the enemy that we can break their encryption".

Title of that novel please, sounds interesting!

See smcl comment. Very recommended, BTW.

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by pulpfiction »

Well, Mr. Zed Shaw is trolling. No doubt about that.

I wonder how he makes the conspiracy theories about NSA when Tor is open source? He is free to investigate the source code for 'backdoors'.

Such conspiracy theories and trolling are nothing but desperate attempts for attention.

Re: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

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Post by Tichy »

flawawa2 wrote: post #62
Tichy wrote: post #49

I didn't understand the part where Wikileaks and Tor are supposed to have different goals. I thought the point of Wikileaks was to publish information anonymously - surely Tor would be suitable to help with that (Tor as it is supposed to work)? I must admit that I am simply too chicken to use Tor. In Germany I think it can actually get you in trouble if some pedophile exits through your node. Also last I checked, the…

Using Tor does not mean that you are an exit node. You have to actually set that up and it is warning you about it. Using Tor as a client only is safe and secure. If people do bad things through your exit node, you are in danger regardless where you live. The law enforcement must be aware of what your server was doing. Its understanding varies from place to place.

OK, then I guess I made that decision to chicken out about running an exit node. It seems a bit parasitic to not run one and still participate, though?
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