the CIA, which is not generally all about "philanthropy", although this
claim lack any reference.
Would someone know why is the Agency mentioned there?
Aside from that, financed projects include "mobile intelligence" for
prospectors and deploying banks onto mobile phones to make sure everyone
even in Africa pays his fees to the landlords. They even dare to say
it's
cheaper than cash. I wonder how that is.
Anyway... Wild allegations are very entertaining, but seriously
what's the
real meaning of this about Tor?
Because no technical evidence suggest it is "backdoored" (whatever that
would mean, this is a trendy word, makes the one who says it sound
so l33t
in journalism circles).
On the other hand, Tor devs are more and more often prone on reminding
that traffic analysis/correlation is not part of their threat model. The
problem is that it is nowadays a definitely proven capability of
adversaries.
I really can't help thinking this is a deliberate desire of keeping
Tor at
government's reach because the eternal argument they oppose do not
stand.
They say that randomized wait times at each relay would make the traffic
too slow. But I remember using Tor 8 years ago when it took forever
to load
a Web page, and still did I use it in spite of this major extra effort,
because anonymous surfing was such a blast.
Today the network is fast enough to be able to swap 25% speed for a
massive increase of anonymity.
The other solution, randomized length of packets with dummy padding
discarded at each relay would impact even less on responsiveness.
I honestly can't see why they legitimately refuse to implement this.
They seem to think that the need to observe both ends is too hard. Did
they hear about the BGP routing attack that targeted Iceland? Funny
how the
Silk Road server was found a month later in... Oh shit, Iceland.
When you claim to protect activists with government money, you'd better
not show dubious intentions if people trust are what you depend on.
Because
that's why Tor was opened at first. The government officials needed
to hide
among civilian traffic. They do need the people to run nodes.
Le 6 avril 2015 15:04:21 CEST, xezha <xezha@riseup.net> a écrit :
I think I may have to leave this list.
Shelley