Re:TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker
by hollerith on Monday March 28, 2011 @05:52PM
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>tor was written to help e.g. informants securely get information back to the US government
-- and so that the U.S. military could use the internet to research, e.g., bullets made of kryptonite-zirconium alloy without outsiders being able to tell that they are researching kryptonite-zirconium alloys -- which Reed refers to as "open source intelligence gathering" in the OP.
Re:TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker
by ABFrep on Monday March 28, 2011 @01:06PM
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Preposterous. No one buys it, and you shouldn't be selling it.
Re:TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker
by JoachimSchipper on Monday March 28, 2011 @02:12PM
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Why not post your reasons for disagreeing with me? You may convince someone, or at least have a fruitful discussion.
Re:TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker
by garagebander on Monday March 28, 2011 @02:30PM
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Why respond to the troll? There's certainly no point to that!
"Preposterous" sums it up nicely. If you don't think it's preposterous, then you would not be in agreement.
What else needs to be said? You either believe the hogwash or you don't. No need to get into facts, those are obvious.
Summary: tor was written to help e.g. informants securely get information back to the US government; but an anonymity network that only carries spies' information back to the US government is not terribly useful, so they opened it up. Yes, tor was made for spying, but not (necessarily) for spying on tor users.