Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer

Re:Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer by derefr on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:15AM (#21452481)

Legitimate use: ordering from an online pharmacy, something that that is legal in your own country, and legal in the source country, but not legal (or just prescription-only) in the US, so there are all sorts of import restrictions every other country enforces for the US’s sake just in order to avoid being party to transshipment to the US.

(And, usually, you have to buy such things with cryptocurrency, too, even though they’re perfectly legal both for you to buy and for them to sell; the product’s scheduled status in the US translates to no payment processor [all US-based] being willing to work with the supplier.)

Try buying e.g. Russian-produced pharmaceuticals from Canada without Tor; I’ll wait :)

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Re:Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer by 1996 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:14PM (#21456768)

Another legitimate use related to your usecase: check crypto conversion rates without disclosing your interest (as some people and some countries have a negative view about crypto): http://4vhxreysjshbfrib.onion/

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Re:Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer by microcolonel on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:20AM (#21452534)

Seems that the same people are both for and against the policy that would make unnecessary, which is a shame.

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