the tor self-parody

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Mon Sep 18 23:34:28 PDT 2017


On 09/18/2017 05:18 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:33 PM, xxxx <xxxx.xxx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         People who use tor to host 'illegal' content get caught.
> 
> Various elements of HW, SW including Tor, users opsec,
> etc are all fail at / for various purposes as may be used.
> No single one of those is solely responsible for all known
> downfalls.

It's mostly been stupid mistakes, entirely unrelated to Tor. In a few
cases, such as SR1, it was stupid mistakes related to Tor.

See
https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-opsec-and-compartmentalization-part-2

>> "freedom hosting"
>> conclusion

I'm not sure how Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques went down.
Maybe it was the same Firefox bug and NIT malware that got many users.
But it likely wasn't a Tor bug. I'm not aware of Tor bugs before the CMU
clusterfuck with substantial meatspace impact.

> Why don't you start a project to go interview all the
> fallen operators. Build an even stronger case like
> blockchains add on their confirmations. As a result
> people might end up listening and questioning more
> than ever before. You'd be famous journo Juantercept.

Because he's a clown ;)

<SNIP>



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