On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:28:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.5K bytes in
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: Anyway, we are testing the possibility of using Tor to help prevent
: being blacklisted by Congressional IT bureaucrats. In conjunction with
What would be blacklisted? Your current IPs and domains or Tor
Servers? Circumventing blocks with Tor will only result in Tor
being blocked. Angering Congress IT people doesn't seem smart.
Perhaps the people with which you interact aren't scientists,
but I'll assure you these people exist. Starting an arms race
with them is a losing proposition. Chances are they can
outspend you on solutions.
: this, we'd like to encourage participants (at least donor
: participants) to help out by running their own Tor exit nodes to
: improve the anonymity and bandwidth capability of the network we've
: all come to know and love. I'm all for doing this, but the question
: is, how do we do this in a proper manner? My fear is that spreading
: the word too much will get us in trouble eventually. Worst case
"Yay Tor more nodes!" Helping create more Tor nodes is great. Doing
so with a long-term commitment is better. Your choices really
come down to funding your own projects or funding Tor to build
these things (LiveCD, USB Stick, point-click-tor-exit node, tor
exit node in a box if you will). There exist a few projects
similar to these. Many of these are orphans.
Alternatively, helping Tor better document and make it easier to
create exit nodes is just as big of a help. Having easy to
follow instructions and GUIs (such as Vidalia) go a long way
towards more nodes.
As for spreading the word, the horse is out of the barn and
halfway across the country. Tor is not a secret. If you're
looking to anger the IT dept for Congress, don't use Tor as the
leverage. It's bad for Tor, and bad for you in the long run.
These are my initial thoughts. I may have more later on.
Thanks!
--
Andrew
