RE: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Kevin French
The Concord Monitor has a piece on the controversy here... http://www.concordmonitor.com/readerservices/businessxml/18550899-95/lebanon-library-at-center-of-internet-privacy-debate-in-shutting-its-tor-server -Original Message- From: Kevin French Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 15:33

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, jsf wrote: > I believe TOR, although it, (like anything) can be used for ill/evil, > is essentially an important tool for good. Thanks for the link to the > EFF petition. Shared it. It occured to me, but, if they're concerned about it's

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Ted Roche
It's actually configured the other way around: it's a relay node, but they are not using a Tor browser in-house. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, jsf wrote: >> >> I believe TOR, although it, (like

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Dan Garthwaite
I think the concern is that it was a tor node - and nefarious bits would be embedded in the packets and no one would know. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, jsf wrote: > >> I believe TOR, although

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Matt Minuti
I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all over ran nodes, especially exit nodes, since aren't those the ones in short supply? Aren't a huge number of

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Friday 11 September 2015, Matt Minuti was heard to say: > I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to > try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and > totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 20:49 -0400, John Abreau wrote: > FYI, 9/14 is a Monday. Yeah, I blew the calendar lookup. Tuesday is correct. So it's Tuesday (9/15). > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > > > The library trustees are meeting at 7PM next Tuesday