dark web briefest intro - was Re: educate me Please

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Jul 21 21:49:16 PDT 2017


On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:17:12AM -0400, John Newman wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jul 21, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:51:11PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> >>> On 07/21/2017 08:26 PM, #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ wrote:
> >>> One of the key features that the Tor company/group has never
> >>> implemented is chaff-filled network - that is, you specify "I want to
> >>> allocate 100 KB/s to my node, and I want that divided equally amongst
> >>> my outward connections, and any peer node that "randomly drops"
> >>> packets, becomes less trusted by me.
> >>> 
> >>> I asked the devs directly (or someone else did, can't remember for
> >>> sure), and the reason came back "our funding proposals for this
> >>> feature have never been approved" - which makes sense, since the CIA,
> >>> DIA, DOD and NSA fund the creation of the Tor network, they don't
> >>> want to fund features which make it much harder for them to uncloak
> >>> users they are targetting.
> >> 
> >> Maybe funded, as in past tense. The current Tor project is not
> >> dependent at all on US government funding that I can see.
> > 
> > Shawn you're a funny lad - a little too transparent for your own
> > good but hey, that's better from my perspective :D
> > 
> > 
> >> If you can prove
> >> otherwise, please post the proof.
> > 
> > Oh please! Awesome - I love this in the morning, makes for a really
> > happy day which I know is pre-laced with humour unseen by the one
> > delivering the punch lines. Gold :)
> > 
> > Your transparency is causing me to not stop chuckling.  Juan is
> > sharper than I and he spotted you ages ago.
> > 
> 
> Yes, Juan is. You're a moron.

You're evidently a deeply nuanced intellectual.

Or something ...



> >> The nice thing about free software is anyone can add those
> >> features, or pay for them to be added. So even your non-government
> >> or non-US programmers can change the code and run their own custom
> >> version of Tor.  The features you mention don't even break
> >> compatibility with the rest of the network, so that's not an issue.
> > 
> > Thank you for reiterating part of my email with which we evidently
> > agree on.
> > 
> > Have a great day - mine started out fabulous :D
> > Z



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