kelsey hudson wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
It appears that there are some TOR nodes doing some nasty things in
Washington, DC.
http://jadeserpent.i2p.tin0.de/tor-dc-nodes-2.txt
And herein lies the reason why services like this are useless. If you
want privacy, get off the internet, plain and simple.
Flamebait, but I'll bite.
By your argument, there's no point in passwords. After all, if you want
privacy, you can't get on the internet, plain and simple.
We trade the usefulness of the internet off against the privacy loss.
The government is interested in making the privacy loss greater than it
currently is. We're interested in making the privacy loss less than it
currently is.
Any time you
connect yourself (your computer?) to a public network, you open up
yourself to scrutiny. If you can't deal with that, then don't
participate. If the risks outweigh the benefits, then stop being
paranoid and do the same thing the rest of us do: deal with it and move on.
No. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get
you. ;)
Systems like TOR exist in order to move the benefits/risks ratio closer
to 1.
I never claimed that ever moves to 1. If the government really wants to
monitor me, they will use wiretaps, keyloggers, remote laser
eavesdropping, etc.
However, I don't have to make it painless and risk-free for them, either.
-a
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