A Tor may not supply the the annomy that you seek. Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea http://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
- Bill Morita wamorita At hevanet.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > C. Robinson > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:28 PM > To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Use of free DNS services > > > and michael, forgive me if i'm wrong, but isn't tor more oriented > > toward obscuring activity than any of the above services? all i > > remember about tor from the brief period i had used it was that it > > bogged down the internet speed abysmally. > > > > - nathan > > The whole point of Tor is to allow people to use the Net > without being traceable to their point of origin. By > default, openDns blocks accessing sites about Tor and other > web anonymizers as filtering and anonymizing tend to be > counter productive activities. In order to effectively > filter via openDns, your source has to be identified. For > users of Tor, the source isn't identifiable. That is the > point of Tor if it actually works. > > The number one customer for openDns I would say is the > concerned parent or business. The number one customer for > Tor, the "Adult" entertainment industry. This is not to say > that Tor doesn't have legitimate uses such as covering the > identity of human rights workers and concealing the identity > of people in China trying to get past state censors who > arguably aren't always right. > > I frankly question whether Tor should be allowed without any > back doors and without the volunteer anonymizing relays > behind it taking at least some responsibility for the content > going through their relays. Granted, their is an argument > for not having a back door. > Thing is, the bad guys will use Tor. So what if bot nets are > a better way to get your message or SPAM out anonymously? > > The major concern with Tor and other anonymizers is that > people who are nuisances on the Net and people who are > addicted to certain things on the net will probably be the > first, not the last people to use it. > OpenDns is one of the few services I know about where the > person addicted to XYZ on the Net can have it filtered out > without losing much. > Dansguardian and ProCon Latte are poor alternatives that > block too much legitimate activity and they are fairly > trivial to bypass. > > I brought up Tor as a possible con to using openDns in some > situations as Tor effectively defeats openDns. Tor will > defeat any third party filter like openDns. Tor is something > I want to research from the ethics standpoint as the issues > concerning Tor are not black and white, there is a lot of > controversy. The use of geolocation by some communities for > example to implement standards for web content is easily > defeated by Tor. > > People argue that the purpose of Tor is to protect free > speech, but I am cynical about protecting anonymous free > speech and offering people anonymous web surfing. What about > the right not to listen to or read something coming to you > over the Net? SPAM is a common abuse of that right. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
