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Re: tor
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:35:56 -0700
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:sadly, naively turning up tor to help folk who wish to be anonymous in hard times gets one a lot of assertive email from self-important people who wear formal clothes. folk who learn this the hard way may find a pointer passed to me by smb helpful, <http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119>.If bittorrent of copyrighted material is the most illegal thing you helped facilitate while running tor, and all you got was an assertive e-mail because of it, you should consider yourself extremely lucky. Anonymity against privacy invasion and for political causes sure sounds like a great concept, but in reality it presents too tempting a target for abuse. If you choose to open up your internet connection to anyone who wants to use it, you should be prepared to be held accountable for what those anonymous people do with it. I'm sure you don't just sell transit to any spammer who comes along without researching them a little first, why should this be any different?
Sadly the ability to distinguish between the myriad forms of activity defined in various localities as "crimnal enterprise" and pick out the one's you're willing to support (sedition) vs those you aren't (use you imagination) is not a property of the tool. knocking down bit-torrent within tor seems straight forward enough but by in large to use the tool you're going to have to take the bad with the good.
Current thread:
- Re: tor, (continued)
- Re: tor Adrian Chadd (Jun 24)
- Re: tor Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 24)
- Re: common carriers, was tor John Levine (Jun 25)
- Re: tor Jack Bates (Jun 25)
- RE: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: tor - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses Rod Beck (Jun 25)
- Re: tor Jamon Camisso (Jun 24)
- RE: tor Steve Pirk (Jun 24)
- Re: tor nancyp (Jun 25)
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- Re: common carier nancyp (Jun 25)
- Re: tor Randy Bush (Jun 25)
- Re: tor Charles Wyble (Jun 24)