On October 18, 2019 2:54:37 AM UTC, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, 05:43:04 PM PDT, Punk <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:16:28 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
The way I see it, there are at least two ways to promote TOR. 1. Openly promote TOR: "TOR is great". "TOR is secure enough". "We don't need an improvement to TOR". and the second is: 2. Oppose potential improvements or augmented systems other than TOR. List their potential problems. Ignore their possible benefits. I think there are clearly people who are choosing to do the second kind of promotion of TOR.
> I think a key aspect of the tor mafia is that getting a few million dollars from the pentagon each year allows them to outcompete anybody who could challenge them. They don't even have to 'oppose' anything. Just fail to fund it. That sounds quite correct. Somebody needs to challenge them. Jim Bell
Its difficult to get the momentum to write new code, get the nodes needed to make it useful, etc - for a whole new challenger. Not that it couldn't and shouldn't happen. In the meanwhile there are a number of interesting improvements to tor that no one at the project actually seems interested in...