On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 August 2017 at 15:07, Ben Tasker <b...@bentasker.co.uk> wrote: > > > That's not quite the claim he's making though. He seems to be claiming > any > > "legitimate" (in his eyes) service shouldn't mind sacrificing their own > > anonymity by being linked to a clearnet identity and becoming a > "verified" > > onion to avoid the rolling rotation. > > > > In other words: you have to pay-to-play in order to have security; pay for > a DNS domain, be subject to takedown and > spoofing-between-the-onion-verifier-and-the-attribution-site, and > deanonymisation / doxxing / throttling / regulation / imprisonment via > blocking payments to your hosting or DNS provider. > > To slave onionspace to the clearnet, in other words. > > Succinctly put. Yes, that'd be my reading of it. The alternative is that you are free to speak/write, but no-one can ever find you because your onion address will change every week, so any coverage you might get of an issue will last, at most, a week. Meanwhile, the drug-markets and other "vile" things he want to block will carry on unabated because a subset of their users will put the effort in to update a central resource weekly to note what the new address is. If that user is an administrator, they could even sign the updates with a predisclosed key to minimise the likelihood of you being lead to a fake by a bad actor. So everyone else gets shot in the foot, while what he wants to block only blinks briefly. > - alec > > > > -- > http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk