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Re: tor

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jun 25 11:52:51 2009

In-Reply-To: <667aab920906250837we8b059fve4c873baf38ce71@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:22:35 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Aaron Porter <atporter@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Aaron Porter<atporter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you feel better if instead of "Tor" it was called "Crowds" and
> instead of those rapscallions at the EFF it was a nice respectable
> AT&T Research project from Avi Ruben? I bet I still have my "Anonymity
> Loves Company" shirt somewhere... Anonymous speech is a vital concept
> if you expect Free speech.

... as long as it doesnt get abused, yes.  When it gets so that the
volume of abuse gets far higher than the volume of use, they go the
way of all those anon remailers (nym.alias.net and othes)

And while we are at listing research projects .. there are multiple
other great projects around - from the berkman center and elsewhere,
that do much the same.

Only - they're targeted at specific repressive regimes - even
customized to them.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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