[email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:26:16PM -0500, [email protected] wrote 0.9K bytes > in 23 lines about: > : With the concentration of 'social' companies headquartered > : on the west coast, how many others have been met with? > : And to good or not so good result? > >>From the official "Tor talked to company X" list, we've discussed Tor > with Craigslist, Google, Facebook, Ebay, LiveJournal and Identi.ca. > In most cases, they come to us to ask how they can handle the jerks > without punishing everyone. This implies they see value in Tor. > Something more automated, like nymble, may be a boon to more acceptance > of Tor (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~nymble/). > > : I know craigslist and google are blocking posts/accounts > : from tor users. > > I believe these are automated systems blocking posts or such, and not > targeted at Tor itself. AOL/ISP proxies run into the same > problems. > > : And there's all sorts of partner groups such as EFF/ACLU/EPIC > > We've talked to all three over the years. The EFF is very much in touch > with us and we talk frequently. > > : Are there such companies that openly allow tor > : such that their testimonials would be a useful > : compliment in such conversations? ie: livejournal > : noticing a loss of userbase when blocking tor. > > Unfortunately, not so much. Many organization who both handle Tor from > their userbase and use it interally don't want to become the posterchild > for Tor in corporations. This is unfortunate for both us and them. I > think the more enlightened a company is about handling privacy, the more > their userbase will trust them. I'm more likely to use a company if > they say they respect my privacy by allowing me to use Tor; but I'm > probably biased. > > If someone wants to help coordinate a lunch or some meetup; there are > Tor people that can show up to help. I've been impressed by some of the > presentations others have done about Tor, online privacy, anonymity and > why this matters, all over the world. >
The Google established sms-activations of accounts some months ago and it is the problem for protecting anonymity of Google users. And what can you tell about blocking the Tor-access to the mail accounts of the Yahoo? *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
