Opinions on Tor?
Ted Roche
tedroche at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 08:18:06 EDT 2015
Update: the library board agreed to turn the Tor relay on again at
last night's meeting.
The Concord Monitor covered it here:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/nation/world/18626620-95/west-lebanon-library-to-keep-backing-tor
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM, R. Anthony Lomartire
<opensourcekeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ulbricht brought himself down. Tor isn't a catchall but it is a useful tool
> when used correctly.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, 8:00 PM Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>>
>> If you run a relay, you're just providing bandwidth. For an exit node,
>> all kinds of traffic would come from your IP. I don't want the RIAA or
>> anyone else sending me a legal notice for something someone else did.
>>
>> As for security, back in 2007...
>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/anonymity_and_t_1.html.
>> Also, FWIW, Silk Road was on Tor and still taken down with effective
>> detective work. It's not secure.
>>
>> In some ways, I'm surprised the library in my home town was the 1st, but
>> maybe I shouldn't. Lots of interesting 1sts happened in the Upper Valley
>> area.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>> On Friday 11 September 2015, Matt Minuti was heard to say:
>>> > I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to
>>> > try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and
>>> > totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all over ran
>>> > nodes, especially exit nodes, since aren't those the ones in short
>>> > supply?
>>>
>>> I had thought that the library was running an exit node, but no, all
>>> this is just over running a relay.
>>>
>>> Heck, I'm running a relay myself. apt-get install tor
>>>
>>> What I would not dare to do is run an exit node, even though doing so
>>> would be a public service. Too many three-letter-agencies.
>>>
>>> > Aren't a huge number of nodes operated by the three-letter-agencies
>>> > anyways?
>>>
>>> They'd be crazy not to, sniffing all the way.
>>>
>>> - --
>>> You may my glories and my state dispose,
>>> But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
>>> --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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