Re:The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat confere...
by x1798DE on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:43PM
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I would guess that the vast majority of users don't know enough to have an opinion about the security and privacy of their browsing experience, but would be in support of such improvements if it caused them no inconvenience.
Law and "oversight" are really not likely to be effective. They're only useful as part of a "defense in depth" strategy, where we make it technically impossible for any attacker to get this information, and if our protocols have flaws in them, the government shouldn't be allowed to look at them anyway, so we have a second (weaker) layer of defense behind our primary defense.
Re:The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat confere...
by Zigurd on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:30PM
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Privacy or "oversight," pick one. With strong croup and deniability privacy is absolute, unless you want torture to be a law enforcement tactic. If you can't handle that, you might as well communicate in the clear.
The vast majority of people do not want that Internet. See, for example, the popularity of Facebook. (About 1.2bn users per month).
You need technical measures, and law, and effective oversight.