On 11/06/2012 04:28 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote: >> it's times like this that >> I'm glad I work for a non-profit that doesn't have to make a business >> tradeoff to decide how much to lie to its users. > *cough* > Hate to recycle one of my past favorite discussion topics, but: > https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en > > Ctrl-F “hidden services” → hey, who has ever heard about military uses > of Tor hidden services, and where's the CP and illicit drugs trade > that everyone is familiar with. Oh, right — Tor project is reluctant > (to say the least) to publicly acknowledge the currently primary use > of hidden services in fear of losing authorities goodwill and funding > sources. Has anyone asked Tim Berners-Lee about child pornography lately? Cell phones are used by drug dealers, and my dicing knife doubles as a deadly weapon. There's a world of difference between the inventor's intended use and those secondary uses.
It's a bit silly to confront Ginsu about knife crime, is all I'm saying. "How's about making knives less sharp?" Best, Griffin Boyce -- "I believe that usability is a security concern; systems that do not pay close attention to the human interaction factors involved risk failing to provide security by failing to attract users." ~Len Sassaman PGP Key etc: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Fontaine -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
