Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks?

Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by jacquesm on Saturday December 04, 2010 @11:40AM (#1969551)

The hard part about running a Tor node for me has always been that you're helping the bad guys just as much or even more as you're helping the good guys, make sure that you know what you are getting in to before running a Tor node.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by dammit on Saturday December 04, 2010 @11:47AM (#1969568)

If you ask Tor exit node operators, they all share the same experience: Abuse is very low in comparison to the traffic they're pushing as a whole.

And yes, technology can be misused. So can a hammer. Tor protects everyone. Who is to judge about what is "bad" and what is "good"? US Government? Google?

There's an estimated number of at least 10,000 bridge users EVERY DAY. I don't think any criminal would go through the pain of using bridges, so that must be people behind firewalls in totalitarian countries.

Also, if you're up to something not good, it's always easy. As a criminal you can buy bot nets, pay servers with stolen credit cards, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by tptacek on Saturday December 04, 2010 @12:14PM (#1969632)

Pretty straightforward to make the good/bad judgement about child pornography. (I like Tor; unlike WL, my Tor reservations are entirely technical).

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Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by MoreMoschops on Saturday December 04, 2010 @12:52PM (#1969728)

Except that countries differ in their legal definition of what a child is.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by jackolas on Saturday December 04, 2010 @01:09PM (#1969767)

Become a bridge then! https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges Help fight against China (and others) attempts to block connecting to tor.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks? by kragen on Saturday December 04, 2010 @12:58PM (#1969746)

You can make the same charge against WikiLeaks, and indeed, the US government has been making exactly that charge.

Both untraceable, anonymous communication (what Tor provides) and the public distribution of previously confidential documents (what WikiLeaks provides) are controversial in this way; but it is far from clear that they "help the bad guys [as much as] the good guys".

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