On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:27 AM, morristan <morristan@tormail.org> wrote:

Perhaps the Silk Road people should donate to Tor. Perhaps they should fund hidden service improvements in Tor. Perhaps both.

I doubt that the Tor Project will ever acknowledge such support. Tor developers (or at least policy people) like to pretend that Tor is used for purposes that they consider morally right, and ignore the uses that are morally wrong [1]. I believe it's an american thing b one typical tell-tale sign is treating criminals as some masterminds who can already easily achieve what they want [2] (americans are used to doing the same in gun control debates), and ignoring the fact that the project facilitates anonymity for criminals just as well, if not more, as for non-criminals. Personally, I don't understand what's the big deal about the make-believe game, and it probably detracts from the project's credibility, but it's fun to watch nevertheless. I actually intend to write a Tor server patch to be able to gather .onion access statistics on relays, once I am sufficiently bored, just for the fun cognitive dissonance potential (expecting drugs and CP forums to top the list). [1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html#WhatAboutCriminals [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vdhs8/hi_iama_we_are_core_members_of_t... -- Maxim Kammerer LibertC) Linux: http://dee.su/liberte _______________________________________________ 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