Pay for Play, Influence Peddling, Tor and Hillary/Russia

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On 8/3/16, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 12:46 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> using bittorrent over Tor
>> such
>> suggestions consistently draw out a spitting snake in response.
>
> There is a good reason for this: such requests have the potential to
> completely overwhelm the Tor network.

Anything can overwhelm anything. There's not orders of magnitude
more 'overwhelmy' tech that tanks specifically to torrenting within tor
than there is in i2p, phantom, gnunet, etc.

Don't confuse tor and its people trying to advertise itself as
a network only for certain fundamentalist use cases, with
tor tech actually being able to support any random use case
you can successfully push down its pipes. Tor sucks
by only supporting TCP, but with onioncat you can push
whatever you want over it.

Tor has stated they'd look at censoring abusive use
according to whatever their definition of abuse may be
(such as by introducing throttling code in the clients / EG's).
That's doubletalk and not a very resistant network then.
These are open networks, use them as you see fit.
If you don't, sooner or later, someone else, including the
masses, criminals and adversaries, will. And if you happen to
expose some flaw in tech or policy along the way, all the better.

> If you really want to torrent anonymously, get on I2P.

In this context, no, just run a node in whatever network
makes you happy such that you give back resources
matching your own use and impact upon that network.

If you and your friends are a bunch of cheapass leeching
fucks, yes, you'll overwhelm anything.