On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 06:34:36PM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
On 03/30/2019 01:40 PM, Punk wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:06:07 -0400 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
" DEFEND AGAINST SURVEILLANCE Tor Browser prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit. All anyone monitoring your browsing habits can see is that you're using Tor. "
This is false [1], and intentionally preloaded with [use case and definitional] weasel words [2].
Good to see that there's at least one voice telling the truth.
On the other hand, we have Mirimir's comment....
"....Tor works well enough that implementing one of the newer designs seems unlikely"
LMAO!!!! Tor works 'well enough' mirimir? Well enough for whom? I do agree that tor works well enough though. It works well enough as NSA controlled opposition. Is that what you meant?
I mean "well enough" in the sense that nobody (as far as I know) has seriously started implementing one of the newer, and arguably better, anonymity systems. Such as ...
HORNET, a system that enables high-speed end-to- end anonymous channels by leveraging next generation network architectures. HORNET is designed as a low-latency onion routing system that operates at the network layer ... Chen et al. (2015)
... or ...
Riffle, a system for bandwidth- and computation-efficient anonymous communication. Riffle addresses the problems of DC-Nets and verifiable mixnets, while offering the same level of anonymity. Kwon (2015)
DC-Net? verifiable mixnet?
Anyway, that statement doesn't represent my opinion on Tor's merits. It's just an observation on what's happened. Or what hasn't happened, as it were.