Re: Update your Tors - Tor security advisory: "relay early" traffic confirmation attack

Dnia wtorek, 5 sierpnia 2014 20:31:26 Juan pisze:

On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:19:17 +0200

rysiek wrote:

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One of the things I have learnt during the years of my brushing shoulders with Teh Gummint (public consultations, conferences, etc) is that a huge bureaucracy like a government is bound to have conflicting interests and fund/take conflicting actions.

Governments are not homogeneous, to say the least.

Governments are pretty homoneneous criminal organizations. The fact that sometimes different government factions within a given government quarrel a bit over the spoils is basically meaningless, from the point of view of government victims at least.

Well, obviously you haven't much experience with how governments look from the inside. Ministries and departments have different and conflicting policies regarding some of their overlapping responsibilities, and the flow of information is a real problem. Add to that some personal animosities and ambitions and you get a clusterfuck of an organisation. A clusterfuck leaving quite a lot of space for projects like Tor. -- Pozdr rysiek