Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

[alan]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Steve Furlong wrote:

> On 10/4/05, gwen hastings <gwen at cypherpunks.to> wrote:
> > Troll Mode on:
> > TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:)
> ...
> > BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as
> > a client.. its quite a noisy protocol
> 
> Well, of course that "feature" is built in. The NSA wants to be able
> to easily find anyone who's running it.
> 
> The noisy protocol has the added benefit of causing the network cable
> to emit lots of radiation, frying the brains of TOR users. The only
> defense is a hat made of flexible metal.

Don't do it! That acts as an antenna and only increases the damage!

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