Open Public Notice re Tor Inc and Jacob Applebaum

[Ryan Carboni]

The timeline of events will be fascinating to look as information
drips out over time. In May, the Tor Project went from the FBI is
harassing our developers, to Appelbaum is a rapist.

Tor is showing it's age though, the 2013 botnet showed that Tor was
less than optimal in it's design
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9683

Of course making Tor more like nginx or Caddy would require a total
rewrite, worker processes have the advantage of parallelization of
crypto.

One cannot expect their browser to be secure if it renders javascript,
graphics, or media.

QUIC uses the minimum of public headers and does not retransmit the
same packet number, would allow for a packet switched design.


Of course, the cheapest way to defeat Tor would be to DDOS it. How
much would it cost to have several thousand of VPSes connect to each
other over Tor and download /dev/zero/ to /dev/null/?

Sometimes the best route is passivism.