Yes, if the webserver started together with Tor people wouldn't forget to turn it on.
The reason why the number of hidden websites(hidden wiki) is not increasing is that only professionals can run a webserver right now. Yes bundeling a _complete_ anonymous communication package is what we urgently need with Tor. Since we are on the internet an anonymous communication tool should include a ready to go webserver which is configured so that noobs are not risking their anonymity. Something like a debian linux package. With the next release of this anonymous communication package a new version of the webserver, privoxy, etc would be included. Imagine the normal user not having to start or configure anything. His homepage would be online whenever he is using tor. Most people even forget to start the webserver when they use tor. That would attract sooo many new users just because of this funcionality. If every user is a router(not necessarily an exit) and has a webserver(securily configured by the tor team) running as soon as he starts Tor then this would also dramatically increase the speed of the tor network. If we make it give and take then that would totally rock. If every user is forced to give at least 10% of this bandwith then that would help already big time. People that want to be anonymous will not object to this. There would be no need to ask people kindly if they could donate some bandwidth. Every user will understand that this is necessary. And they are paying for internet access anyway. There is no drawback for them. By giving they are also receiving. I really hope that this will be implemented. I know there were lots of discussions about this already in the archive. But this really, really is important. Why not have 200 000 routers or more instead of 480 knowing that these routers at least give 10% of their bandwith? As the internet connection speeds of users will increase in the future Tor will automatically benefit from this. Tor is free to use and the least thing users can do is give bandwidth. I don't know if this is possible but how about somebody receives just as much bandwidth as he offers himself. If he is giving much then Tor will look for a circuit of nodes that give just as much. In a user base of 200 000 users that should be possible. This could prevent such attacks like the one from the Boulder university as well. I don't see any Tor servers from Korea for example. But there surely are lots of users. In Korea they have very fast connections. If all of them become Tor routers Tor would fly. What exactly is the reason that there is a tor client and a tor server? A button with which people choose to be an exit or not would suffice. Only one Tor software(client & server combined) and everybody is a router with at least 10% bandwith. I am telling you nobody would ever use public procies again with this implementation! -- JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be
