On 02/12/11 22:47, Andrew wrote:

I've spent a lot of time working on issues with Syria lately, the universal report is that tor is terrible slow, they can't use tails because it takes too long to download/ is blocked, and their data might leak if if they use Tor, so using a VPN with some precautions taken is much more appetizing.

Responding to criticism about cooperating with the US investigation of LulzSec, HideMyAss said: "Regarding censorship bypassing, some have stated it is hypocritical for us to claim we do not allow illegal activity, and then claim our service is used in some countries to bypass censorship illegally. Again we follow UK law, there isnbt a law that prohibits the use of Egyptians gaining access to blocked websites such as Twitter, even if there is one in Egypt b& though there are certainly laws regarding the hacking of government and corporate systems." See http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/ One precaution might be to choose VPN services in jurisdictions unfriendly to your own. Perhaps Russian VPN services would more likely cooperate with Syria? Would US ones be less likely? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE