On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:43:27 +0200 Philipp Winter: > ethio tor wrote: >> What if there is a tor "virus" (pardon for the choice of word) that >> can infect such pc and make a relay, bridge, or what ever on the >> background undetected. > > Sounds like a "human rights worm". Some people thought about that > before [1]. > > Aside from the obvious ethical difficulties, I would consider such a > worm as highly problematic because it works in the "interest" of an > independent project and would eventually damage its reputation (just > think about how the media would interpret it). And a damaged > reputation might decrease Tor's user diversity which, on the other > hand, would hurt anonymity.
Not to mention the fact that it is most likely illegal. An illegal act to correct or respond to another illegal act is usually not justified, or: the end usually does not justify the means. What if a large music corporation *cough*Sony*cough* placed software on your PC to stop you performing what you consider to be perfectly within your rights but they consider to be illegal? And what if that software introduced vulnerabilities which could be used by other parties to gain access to your PC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal It looks like the Obfsproxy TBB may work https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en#download I wonder if VPN is blocked, and if not are there any free/inexpensive endpoints which are simple to configure? -- kat _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
