Tor Stinks re Traffic Analysis and Sybil (as do other networks)

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 05:46:32AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> > FOIA documents came out
> 
> ?
> 
> > villians
> 
> Various things people have mentioned, conspiracy or not,
> that people can decide...
> 
> 
> > Is that a quote from X...
> > advertising tor as a means to
> > 	"Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis."
> 
> Posted that problem on tor-talk some times over years,
> last was probably in the thread announcing new webdesign.
> Worse, the original version of the sentence many years
> before was not as blanket superlative and or with some
> disclaimer... that was removed. After which the problem
> sentence above has remained through today. See post
> there, or simply see Wayback, for some of its history.
> 
> > maybe they're just
> 
> Appears more than a few have spent Tor time distracted
> mushing their brains in drunk sex orgies, revolving circles
> of sordid relations, on SJW and other hysterics, figuring
> out and inventing new pronouns, sorting all that, etc.
> Origins of all those would be research project itself.
> Any spook agency would speak to the corruptibilty
> and defocus that can occur therein. Maybe even
> lay claim to some of it, who knows.
> 
> There are also many secret funding sources
> denoted by letter only as "Sponsor X".
> Though to fair credit, most of those are directed funds
> where the directives and work is generally known.
> 
> Secrecy of the Board / Exec that refuses to
> release meeting minutes, voting records, etc.
> Also why are users (the final investors stakeholders) not

Users are not stakeholders, except that they act as stakeholders.

Passive/ tacit/ blind acceptance, is a sheep to be shorn by the
stakeholders.

Your implied position I agree with though - that users -should- be
treated as stakeholders.

In the "consumer" paradigm, "the power of the purse" (i.e., don't buy
something) is the "user"s veto power.

With Tor, I2P is not a viable competitor for the average user, so the
average user sheeple cannot "opt out" if he wants to say write a book
about the dark web or investigate some naughty behaviour by big corp.


> offered any input on single or total Board swapouts,
> key positions, as with other supposedly public corps.
> Secrecy and exclusion in some meetups, groups.
> Censoring some list topics that were valid.
> 
> Adversaries don't care, only how they can twist
> things to advantage.
> 
> 
> Here's one to sort any truth or not from...
> 
> https://zigforums.com/thread/1012230/technology/tor-project-cia-mossad.html
> 
> "Julian Martin writes:
> Here's a short list of what's wrong with the Tor Project
> - A person at the Tor Project hired (or wanted to hire) a (former) CIA
> person without notifying it's fellow Tor Project employees[1][2]
> - Shari Steele's husband Bill Vass worked for the NSA[3] and now works
> for Amazon Web Services
> - Rob Thomas a Rabbi is listed as a Tor Project team member (red flags for me!)
> - They don't mind child porn, drugs, murderers for hire, but White
> Nationalism (fuck the DailyStormer though) has to be officially and
> publicly denounced[4].
> - It has been infiltrated by SJWs
> 
> Here's a short list of what's wrong with Tor Browser
> - Javascript is enabled by default
> - Javascript is re-enabled each time you restart the browser
> - They let user be fingerprinted because "it breaks some MAC OS
> keyboard shortcuts" [5][6]
> 
> [1]: ibtimes.co.uk/leaked-tor-project-chat-logs-reveal-it-struggled-over-hiring-ex-cia-agent-1567591
> [2]: pastebin.com/WPAmqkW8
> [3]: bvass.wordpress.com/tag/nsa/
> [4]: twitter.com/torproject/status/898256109789687808
> [5]: gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/toolkit/components/resistfingerprinting/nsRFPService.h
> [6]: trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146
> 
> I'm still using it because it gives me a false sense of security. And
> no alternatives, really
> "
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps in the end... it's about that last line... no alternatives.
> Go create some of those :)