On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:12:28 -0400
Steve Kinney
On 08/15/2016 12:24 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Uff... Some months ago, I would be happy. Now, it means nothing... :((
Like any other tool, the TOR Browser has strengths and weaknesses, appropriate uses and foolish/destructive uses.
Lest we forget, Chelsea Manning used TOR to move massive amounts of data to Wikileaks.
Source? And even if that were true, then that would be how he got caught? using tor? Hardly good advertising for tor. I know that allegedly he was betrayed, but, you know, "parallel construction". Truth is, it would have been a lot better for him to copy any data he wanted to 'leak' and mail it using 'snail mail'.
One can argue that Ed Snowden found what he was allowed to find and shipped it to Greenwald & Co. under the approving gaze of some compartment at NSA; Manning, not so much. Billions of dollars worth of damage were done to the U.S. National Interest,
How? Not meaning to badmouth manning, it's not his fault that the US is a fascist cesspool, but americans either don't give a fuck about their mass murdering government, or cheer for it.
which is why she rates a sentence of slow death by ritualistic torture.
This recording was never supposed to see the light of day, but it walked right out of a tightly secured base and onto the Internet within hours: Manning tells all, including how and why to do that thing:
https://freedom.press/blog/2016/04/freedom-press-foundation-publishes-leaked...
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She would have gotten away with it, too, if some "individual" who needs not be named had not sold her for cheap.
Onion routing can be a useful part of a complete operational security toolkit. Only when its limitations are understood and pessimistic assumptions are made, of course.
:o)