The problem with the EFF, right from John Gilmore fondly believing he could secure his open relay against spammers while allowing John Perry Barlow to send email through toad.com even if he was traveling in Africa, all the way to TOR, is that their weird and wonderful concept of privacy trumps even basic security principles, quite ironically leading to a whole lot of grief and loss of privacy for a bunch of people.
Add to it their propaganda campaign against any kind of spam filtering at all, and that makes a combination I don't like at all. I don't like it enough that I went and compared their tricks to those of Karl Rove.. http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove/ Improvement was probabilistically too small, my ass. TOR's quickly become the bot operator and script kiddy tool of choice, that plus the other variety of freedom of expression, bypassing office firewalls to surf porn at work rather than to anonymously post political commentary. And that is because an overarching need to build privacy features in simply mean that security of any kind is systematically eliminated, and security 101 for access networks includes logging and audit trails .. call it something inherent in TOR's design. srs From: Anish Mohammed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Suresh, I have done a bit of research on onion routing. I submitted some scheme to prevent excatly the problem you mentioned. the reason no-one wanted such schemes apparently was probabilitically the improvement was too small. I could send you slides from my presentation if you are interested. You might be able to google the same :-)
