On 6/29/16, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
So who would use it? I'm guessing that everyone who uses Tor, I2P, etc, etc would use it. And so we'd be back to where we are now with Tor, with just the exception that the new system isn't vulnerable to global adversaries.
How would you keep statist criminals from using it?
When you have a non vulnerable network, or at least one that's equally invulnerable to or exploitable by all participants, the question of who uses it becomes more mooted by that balance. Today's overlay networks are vulnerable to GPA's, which at this stage are just governments and global telecoms... not end users. There's a big imbalance there, and it's not in favor of said users.
There's still the criticism that Tor is intentionally vulnerable to global adversaries. Maybe it was at first, by design. But it's an open-source project.
Best design principles vs adversaries, as school of thought over a decade ago, are certainly different than what would be designed in 2017. There's room for something new.