On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, David McKeegan <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a discussion of Tor over at BoingBoing, where Cory Doctorow published > a good article:
Just for the record, the article is written by Rhona Mahony. > http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/25/intro-to-tor-how-you.html > > Some of the comments are provocative: > > "TOR is 99% Nigerian fraud and kiddie porn. Don't take my word for it. Set up > an exit node and sniff the traffic for five minutes. In my opinion TOR is a > virus botnet that, rather than being spread by exploiting software > vulnerabilities, is spread by exploiting vulnerabilities in the ideology of > naive geeks. But it facilitates crime - the actual human exploitation kind of > crime, not the victimless kind of crime - just as well as any other botnet." > > Perhaps some here would care to post in defence? Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror) has written a few comments already. -- Runa Sandvik *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
