On 06/28/2016 01:31 PM, juan wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:33:01 -0600 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
. But overall, I think that Tor has done much good.
for the US military, yes.
For sure. But also for online drug dealers. There have been a few spectacular failures, certainly. And the security model of having illegal stuff mailed to meatspace addresses is laughable. But it has clearly increased availability, especially for niche substances like DMT and analogues. Quality too, I suspect. For me, that's a good. No question. More generally, Tor has allowed many to evade state control. Some of them deserve to die, in my opinion. But the important point is that Tor has overall reduced state power. Is that not a good thing, juan? It's true that Tor has allowed the CIA to act more freely in Ukraine, Syria, Iran, etc. But that, like freedom for pedophiles, is just a cost of usable "anonymity systems" (or whatever you want to call them).