Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change
why adversaries should finance tor project and publicly it if they have a malicious intent?
Why do adversaries do that to their opponents? Because it's a simple and effective diversion operation. Nor is it dependant upon whether any "malicious intent". Adversaries often fund their opponents to keep them busy and happy even if opponent only a few steps tangent behind the race to actually being able to kill the adversary. It can work actively... "Here's a pile and stream of money to develop some useless or thing we want in an RFP / contract / grant / employee", or passively... "Hey, those guys seem to be going down useless paths, ok here's a bunch of money to keep them happily digging in those holes, LOL." Usually delivered by false fronts. See also "regulatory capture" type of concept. Also how nice salaries and simple weight of self reinforcing mass inertia and groupthink over time can keep any one or group settled into the same thing, less dynamism, up to even not abandoning and starting out elsewhere due to simple risk aversion... "job food friends lifestyle." Is an entity, product, or network subject to whatever to some degree or other? Maybe, maybe not, others decide. Yet without talking about and analysing harder questions once in a while, especially as generations come and go, people might have less sense therein. If a site looks sexy it must be good, right? That's what at least marketers think, and it's perhaps good enough for browsing mundane TV news sites. Yet there's no frontpage splash disclaimer for others with more sensitive, vulnerable, or different use cases. Nor mention of Tor people hypocritically trying to censor ban nodes out of the consensus for, ironically, nothing more than excercising their right to free speech. Instead of say punting that out to meta analysis projects that users can choose to subscribe to as suits their own likes, support, and thinking therein. To be fair, no different than any other business (say ibm.com) or opensource project... finding much suitability disclaimer on anyone's pages, surely not without a good number of clicks, it's of less interest or natural to cover some potentially questionable areas, adversarial weaknesses, etc... it doesn't sell. Anyhow... The last actual use case warning or disclaimer on torproject.org was removed by or on October 10 2010. Some historical bisects.. Site v1 first, domain 1998-01-29 http://web.archive.org/web/19981212031609/http://www.onion-router.net/ same content actually to "circa" 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20061023145713/http://www.onion-router.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130120133213/http://www.onion-router.net/ except for the gov diff http://web.archive.org/web/20130420093515/http://www.onion-router.net/ curr http://web.archive.org/web/20190228035625/http://www.onion-router.net/ Site v2 first, domain 2006-10-17 http://web.archive.org/web/20071011223019/http://www.torproject.org/ last http://web.archive.org/web/20101003133226/http://www.torproject.org/ Site v3 first http://web.archive.org/web/20101010191937/http://www.torproject.org/ last http://web.archive.org/web/20190326100059/https://www.torproject.org/ Site v4 first http://web.archive.org/web/20190327033924/https://www.torproject.org/ Misc... http://web.archive.org/web/20041108031017/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/Th... http://web.archive.org/web/20070104070427/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/Th... http://web.archive.org/web/20100416102850/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/Th... http://web.archive.org/web/20110728115309/https://trac.torproject.org/projec...
what you said
It's really all junk lately, just delete it.
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