Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > >As long as funding doesn't come with strings, there's no problem with > >accepting it. > Very true - more so w/ people already using Tor or those that would never > look at how Tor is funded. > But if some sayings were ever true, it's,

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 06/15/2014 12:50 AM, krishna e bera wrote: > What about forming an international consortium to shepherd Tor, so that > developments can come from and be funded in multiple jurisdictions? > This would also remove some of the odour that any US-based project emits > on international and virtual str

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Griffin Boyce
Sebastian G. wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> - Looked into legality of receiving a large financial donation from a >> country on the US Treasury embargoed list. Unsurprisingly, we cannot >> accept such a donation due to the source. > Money is speech, isn't it? It's just a promise.* If that is true, the

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Mirimir
On 06/15/2014 03:17 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 6/15/2014 2:08 PM, Mirimir wrote: >> The law is the law, and (acting openly) the choices are compliance, or >> noncompliance on principle. But see above. > No, the law is often temporary, until someone has the guts to stand up > (100's, maybe 1000's o

[tor-talk] Onion web hosting.

2014-06-15 Thread Bobby Brewster
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Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/15/2014 2:52 PM, grarpamp wrote: The code is open for inspection so it's not an overt issue, and the cash funds a lot of good research. I'm not accusing Tor Project of anything underhanded. And you are correct (it funds a lot of research). I'm saying, to the public & many potential users,

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Geoff Down
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > But if some sayings were ever true, it's, "Perception is reality," err, no it isn't. Maybe on the quantum level. GD -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org T

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/15/2014 2:08 PM, Mirimir wrote: The law is the law, and (acting openly) the choices are compliance, or noncompliance on principle. But see above. No, the law is often temporary, until someone has the guts to stand up (100's, maybe 1000's of times, in the last 150 yrs, in U.S. alone). This &

[tor-talk] On recent and upcoming developments in the PT universe

2014-06-15 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello friends, this is a brief post on recent and upcoming developments in the PT universe. What has happened: TBB 3.6: As many of you know, the TBB team recently started releasing TBB-3.6 with built-in PT support. This is great and has taken PT usage to new levels [0]. Maaad

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Where such a transaction would not benefit the country, or even the private > donor, in any > financial, military, political manner, etc.; only promoting access to free > speech & information, > which in all likely hood, could lead to citiz

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Mirimir
On 06/15/2014 10:03 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > On 6/14/2014 10:40 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: >> On 06/14/2014 03:21 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: >>> That has to be a violation of your rights. >> It's the law in the USA. Regardless of how one feels about it, it's >> currently against the law. >> >> The c

[tor-talk] Strange problmes when building Tor private network

2014-06-15 Thread Zhuo Zhongliu
To someone might concerns, Hi~ Recently I was building a tor private network in local lan for experiment, one of my dirs is configured as follows: Address 192.168.1.115 ORPort 5003 ORListenAddress 192.168.1.115:5003 SocksPort 7003 NickName dir3 DataDirectory /home/xxx/experiment/routers/3 Testing

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 10:40 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 06/14/2014 03:21 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: That has to be a violation of your rights. It's the law in the USA. Regardless of how one feels about it, it's currently against the law. The citizen resided in a country as listed as a State Sponsor of T

Re: [tor-talk] Including Tor into millions of products.

2014-06-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/15/14, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 06/14/2014 03:09 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: >> The questions that pop in my head are: >> >> 1) What kind of products are that? (Businesses or End-Consumer market?) > > Yes and yes. OK. Wide applicability is good. >> 2) What is the intended use-case? (Usage of