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.
And which one is targetted at the specific repressive regime effectively created by the US broadband cartels? :-) .. JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.