On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:28:23AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > >Hidden services will run very fine with only middleman and bridge nodes. > > that's true, for sure. However, we create a parallel world doing this.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. > From a metaphysical POV (IMHO), TOR is (partly) existing to defend > civil rights. But to be able to do this, it must exist not only in a The free, uncesored Intenet is dead. The sooner we acknowledge this, and realize that we need an anonymizing publishing layer on top of that the better. I keep harping about that since early 1990s. Surisingly little has happened since. > 'parallel world'. Losing connection to 'this world' (today's internet) > would mean to lose the 'war'. Things are never quite black and white. There is a network that is censored and sniffed but also accountable, and hence less prone to abuse. On top of that you can have a network that anonymous/pseudonymous, unaccountable, and slightly abusive. There's a place for both of them to exist. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE