Anyone heard of this - TOR?
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http://tor.eff.org/[^] Interesting project. Good, but also bad in light of recent events.
Giles wrote: Good, but also bad in light of recent events. Could you please expand a bit? I don't recall any events where privacy was responsible for something bad happening. I can only recall a few where the major cause was innefective security. Lack of privacy is a bad substitute for security. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Giles wrote: Good, but also bad in light of recent events. Could you please expand a bit? I don't recall any events where privacy was responsible for something bad happening. I can only recall a few where the major cause was innefective security. Lack of privacy is a bad substitute for security. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Daniel Turini wrote: Lack of privacy is a bad substitute for security. You said that. And I AGREE TOTALLY!!!
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Giles wrote: Good, but also bad in light of recent events. Could you please expand a bit? I don't recall any events where privacy was responsible for something bad happening. I can only recall a few where the major cause was innefective security. Lack of privacy is a bad substitute for security. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Well one year after firing a troublesome employee my boss started getting threatening emails from a supposedly anonymous source. A bit of simple backtracking and we got his name. Bad things happened to him. The ex-employee would have loved Tor. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Kirkham wrote: The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the cliché...Star Trek had it in spades.
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Giles wrote: Good, but also bad in light of recent events. Could you please expand a bit? I don't recall any events where privacy was responsible for something bad happening. I can only recall a few where the major cause was innefective security. Lack of privacy is a bad substitute for security. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
There's an article on Tor on Whitedust[^] that illustrates a few of the concepts of Tor and how it can be used/possibly blocked. Now, the problem with Tor is that it isn't just used for privacy, it has found a popular use as a vehicle for anonymised attacks and threats. In particular many IRC networks are plagued by attacks launched by people behind Tor proxies to the point that the Tor project has had to include descriptions[^] for how to block Tor proxies. Yet another thing to limit access from in your service. Privacy-enabling software is a dual-edged sword... on one hand it allows people to express their opinion in anonymity, on the other hand it allows unscrupulous people to misuse this anonymity by attacking others. The conundrum of the digital age. -- Henrik Stuart (http://muer.njoerdba.com[^])