On Fri, November 30, 2012 8:26 am, Emily Gonyer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On 11/30/2012 12:20 PM, Allan Day wrote: >>>> >>>> - Tentative agreement for Karen to reach out to the Tor Project >>>> (https://www.torproject.org) and others for a campaign related to >>>> Privacy and Security. >>> >>> >>> I've had a bit of a think about Tor integration from a design point of >>> view, and have filed a bug [1] against Settings. It could make sense, >>> but it will need more research before we can make a decision. >> >> >> I assume everyone has heard about this by now? >> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/ >> >> Tor will be a big battleground over the next year - with all sorts of >> repercussions for Net Neutrality, privacy on the net and the ability to >> avoid tracking, versus law enforcement and facilitation of illegal >> activity. >> >> I would be very happy to see GNOME take a strong stance in defence of >> personal liberty and freedom from tracking - I think there's a huge >> opportunity for us to team up with groups like Mozilla and EFF, who are >> thinking a lot about the issue of tracking on the web, and make a group >> effort to defend projects like Tor against persecution by law >> enforcement, >> with the end result of a practical erosion of our freedoms. >> >> The frame is being set - if you're for Tor you're for child pornography. >> We >> cannot allow the message to be set in this way, we need to tell another >> story, one of Big Brother and protecting our children from predators on >> the >> internet with projects like ghostery and collusion: >> http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html >> >> Who's with me? Should we reach out to Gary Kovacs and others at Mozilla >> and >> EFF to see if we can't help create an Alliance for Personal Internet >> Liberty? >> >> Cheers, >> Dave. > > I'm with you 100% Dave! I would love to see us partner with Tor, EFF, > Mozilla, etc on such a project to speak out and show how we are > working to protect our and everyone elses' freedoms online. We could > make the FoG Campaign about "Freedom & Privacy Online" which is what > we are really talking about.
I'll reach out to EFF today - Tor works closely with them - to see if they have anything in the works we can partner on! karen > > The biggest 'disadvantage' to Tor as I understand it comes from the > hit you take in overall network performance, which can be > considerable, and is highly variable depending on the speeds you get > through the nodes Tor chooses. If you get unlucky and hit a node run > by somebody with a crappy connection like me, it can be considerable > :) But sometimes the privacy it provides trumps the hit in speed you > take - and for many people who are 'just surfing around' its not a big > deal. > > HTH! > > > Emily > > >> >> >> -- >> Dave Neary, Lyon, France >> Email: dne...@gnome.org >> Jabber: nea...@gmail.com >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> marketing-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > > -- > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, > power and magic in it. - Goethe > > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss > > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that > counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list