Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

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> Tor design has stayed 25 years old, while threats advanced light years, yet
> Tor Project Incorporated chooses silence refusing to even publicly
> speculating on design weakness in such wide public needed and vocal manner
> so as to inform warn users of some real issues.

"Tor Stinks  -- NSA, vulns known since before 2012"

Tor Project Incorporated (TPI) has been putting users at risk since decade[s].
Yet people still refuse to listen, and to act to publicly call them
out on it, and to act and design and deploy better networks.
And they still refuse to listen even when heavy hitters like Snowden tell
them that speculating and facting on decades worth of advancements
is very prudent to do now. And top TPI people will refuse to post
about or directly acknowledge without weaseling away what
Snowden is saying and how it relates to tor. He doesn't directly
note these two areas, but the idea that Network Analysis and Sybil
have not also far advanced in 10 years... is dangerously stupid
and must be addressed.

ps: TPI's continued censorship of all these threads off their lists
proves that the Tor Project is corrupt and must now be confronted
and countered in public by the public.



Snowden Warns Today's Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like
"Child's Play"

Authored by Julia Conley via CommonDreams.org,

    "We trusted the government not to screw us," said Edward Snowden.

    "But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage
of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is
the nature of power."

With this week marking 10 years since whistleblower Edward Snowden
disclosed information to journalists about widespread government
spying by United States and British agencies, the former National
Security Agency contractor on Thursday joined other advocates in
warning that the fight for privacy rights, while making several
inroads in the past decade, has grown harder due to major changes in
technology.

"If we think about what we saw in 2013 and the capabilities of
governments today," Snowden told The Guardian, "2013 seems like
child's play."

Snowden said that the advent of commercially available surveillance
products such as Ring cameras, Pegasus spyware, and facial recognition
technology has posed new dangers.

As Common Dreams has reported, the home security company Ring has
faced legal challenges due to security concerns and its products'
vulnerability to hacking, and has faced criticism from rights groups
for partnering with more than 1,000 police departments—including some
with histories of police violence—and leaving community members
vulnerable to harassment or wrongful arrests.

Law enforcement agencies have also begun using facial recognition
technology to identify crime suspects despite the fact that the
software is known to frequently misidentify people of color—leading to
the wrongful arrest and detention earlier this year of Randal Reid in
Georgia, among other cases.

Last month, journalists and civil society groups called for a global
moratorium on the sale and transfer of spyware like Pegasus, which has
been used to target dozens of journalists in at least 10 countries.

Protecting the public from surveillance "is an ongoing process,"
Snowden told The Guardian on Thursday. "And we will have to be working
at it for the rest of our lives and our children's lives and beyond."

In 2013, Snowden revealed that the U.S. government was broadly
monitoring the communications of citizens, sparking a debate over
surveillance as well as sustained privacy rights campaigns from groups
like Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight for the Future.

    "Technology has grown to be enormously influential," Snowden told
The Guardian on Thursday.

    "We trusted the government not to screw us. But they did. We
trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did.
That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power."

Last month ahead of the anniversary of Snowden's revelations, EFF
noted that some improvements to privacy rights have been made in the
past decade, including:

    The sunsetting of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which until 2020
allowed the U.S. government to conduct a dragnet surveillance program
that collected billions of phone records;

    The emergence of end-to-end encryption of internet communications,
which Snowden noted was "a pipe dream in 2013";

    The end of the NSA's bulk collection of internet metadata,
including email addresses of senders and recipients; and

    Rulings in countries including South Africa and Germany against
bulk data collection.

The group noted that privacy advocates are still pushing Congress to
end Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which
permits the warrantless surveillance of Americans' communications, and
"to take privacy seriously," particularly as tech companies expand
spying capabilities.

    "Despite calls over the last few years for federal legislation to
rein in Big Tech companies, we've seen nothing significant in limiting
tech companies' ability to collect data... or regulate biometric
surveillance, or close the backdoor that allows the government to buy
personal information rather than get a warrant, much less create a new
Church Committee to investigate the intelligence community's
overreaches," wrote EFF senior policy analyst Matthew Guariglia,
executive director Cindy Cohn, and assistant director Andrew Crocker.

    "It's why so many cities and states have had to take it upon
themselves to ban face recognition or predictive policing, or pass
laws to protect consumer privacy and stop biometric data collection
without consent."

"It's been 10 years since the Snowden revelations," they added, "and
Congress needs to wake up and finally pass some legislation that
actually protects our privacy, from companies as well as from the NSA
directly."