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Re:Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all... by NameNickHN on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:28AM (#4568761)
> Spammers/scammers use Tor. And they use it in a big way.

Yes, and they use the rest of the internet, too. Maybe we should ban everything.

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Re:Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all... by runn1ng on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @10:26AM (#4570483)
yes, but, in the language of conditional probability:

P(spammer|non-tor) is quite low (there are not that much spammers), while P(spammer|tor) is almost one (almost everyone coming from Tor is a spammer).

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Re:Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all... by NameNickHN on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @07:38AM (#4575100)
Email spam is responsive for 85%-95% of all emails. That's almost all. Yet, nobody would seriously suggest to ban email.
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