OnionShare Tor

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Thu Oct 17 21:22:54 PDT 2019



On October 18, 2019 2:54:37 AM UTC, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>On Thursday, October 17, 2019, 05:43:04 PM PDT, Punk <punks at tfwno.gf>
>wrote:  
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> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:16:28 +0000 (UTC)
>jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> The way I see it, there are at least two ways to promote TOR.   
>>> 1.   Openly promote TOR:   "TOR is great".  "TOR is secure enough". 
> "We don't need an improvement to TOR".
>>> and the second is:
>>> 2.  Oppose potential improvements or augmented systems other than
>TOR.   List their potential problems.  Ignore their possible benefits. 
>>> I think there are clearly people who are choosing to do the second
>kind of promotion of TOR.
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> >   I think a key aspect of the tor mafia is that getting a few
>million dollars from the pentagon each year allows them to outcompete
>anybody who could challenge them. They don't even have to 'oppose'
>anything. Just fail to fund it.
> That sounds quite correct.  Somebody needs to challenge them.
>              Jim Bell  

Its difficult to get the momentum to write new code, get the nodes needed
to make it useful, etc - for a whole new challenger. Not that it couldn't and
shouldn't happen.

In the meanwhile there are a number of interesting improvements to
tor that no one at the project actually seems interested in...



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