On 12/20/11, Nick Mathewson <ni...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) > <li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote: > >>> Absolutely brilliant. Someone donates to your cause and, if they >>> don't come up to your standards, you do your best to ensure they get >>> pwned instead of just dropping them from the donor list. >> >> If you want to participate to the Tor Network you must responsible, that >> means also keeping your system secure. > > When I read Lee's above paragraph, I worry Lee might have gotten the > idea that Fabio is speaking for Tor in some official capacity. So: > Please be aware that Fabio is speaking for himself, and does not speak > on behalf of the Tor Project.
Thank you. I haven't been keeping up with Tor & don't know who is part of the team vs. invidudual contributor any more. > For my own part, I am perfectly fine with the idea of working *with* > server operators to help them secure their systems, and with making > sure that only secure systems are on the network. Which I would agree is a desirable goal. As long as it's "working with" instead of "dictating to." > But efforts in this > area need to work with the foreknowledge and consent of node > operators, and not alienate our volunteer community. Also, the > appropriate response to horribly insecure servers on the network would > be to inform the operators and de-list the servers if they didn't get > fixed--not to publicly post them but leave them on the network. That > would be the worst of all worlds. +1 Lee _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk