Mimir: > Tor can provide anonymity, including location anonymity, for victims of > offline abuse, who have perhaps relocated for protection. Even for > victims of online abuse, Tor can help protect against doxing.
I hadn't imagined that victims keep in contact with their abusers or have their communication data exposed to their abusers. 01.10.2014, 19:49 Derric Atzrott: >> I appear to lack imagination on how Tor helps abuse victims. Since some >> of you are involved with some organizations working in that field, I >> hope you give some insight. >> >> Personally I see no benefit in using Tor from the point of view of an >> abuse victim. Beside the properties why anyone could use Tor. >> >> Quite the opposite, the abuser seems to gain more by using Tor, if >> he/she (mostly he) is anonymous in the first place. > > I know of at least one use case that I have personally seen. > > A lot of abuse victims have never told anyone or have told very few > folks that they are victims of abuse. It's one of those things that > people just don't feel comfortable talking about, and for a good > reason, as abuse victims are often stigmatised by our society and > there is a great deal of victim blaming that happens. [break] Unfortunately that appears to be true in some cases, for whatever amount of 'some'. > There exists > online a number of websites where victims of abuse can privately > get together to discuss their past or current abuse and find ways > to either get out of the situation or move on with life. I see that this holds a higher risk of being exposed than just visiting a website dealing with abuse. > These sorts of things are a godsend for such people. Indeed, I think it is. Up to this point there is nothing I would have not claimed to be Tor not being useful for, it's just that I'd recommend people to look up or discuss their medical conditions for the same reasons. > Another use-case would be the anonymous reporting of abusers. In > this case someone who is not the abuse victim, but knows of the > abuse can report it without fearing reprisal from the abuser. This > is the same sort of logic that led to anonymous tip lines for police > stations. That is something I had not imagined for abuse cases. I'm familiar with this being useful for dissidents or leaking of documents about war crimes, environmental issues, corruption and such things. > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > Thank you both. To avoid overloading tor-talk, I consider myself satisfied with the replies I got (because I am), if however others want to add something, because it is good to have success stories of Tor on tor-talk, then please add what you think. Regards, Sebastian G. bastik -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
