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If you're interested in developing OS X applications with a lisp, you should check out Nu — http://programming.nu — It's a Cocoa-native language built on the Objective-C runtime, that's flavored somewhat like Common Lisp.

Additional info:

● A talk by the gentleman who created Nu, Tim Burks, talking about why he did so: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/13

● The Google Group for Nu: http://groups.google.com/group/programming-nu

● The source (Apache License) on Github: https://github.com/timburks/nu

If you add this to your torrc:

    ExcludeNodes $0AD3FA884D18F89EEA2D89C019379E0E7FD94417,$3100A70862157E5F9136B6AAEB7571745D4DC055,$49E2C345FDA5E9ADFE13320690BF2C77EA803E6C,$4A0CCD2DDC7995083D73F5D667100C8A5831F16D,$5FABB67A4C229ECACD53F5E02B62C87E5300728D,$62665FD8A07D2E0F6ABDB4A36283A5A8824C0128,$6AF64BD1DF8B92D5194760C2256EBF80F70273DD,$71B7F2406DDAE829979B53963B952E17CD021125,$8522EB98C91496E80EC238E732594D1509158E77,$D67C5F501DAA0EE65AF9422A36385217D8AD3927,$EFE02E652CA2EB6FD96B30DC77EA55ABF7EFC1A5

Then your traffic will never pass through any Tor node that Jacob has publicly admitted to controlling.

To verify this:

Check https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en for the ExcludeNodes directive. There is an ExcludeExitNodes option, if you're willing to tolerate him as a middle-man, and just not exit out his nodes.

Check one of the online directory servers (e.g. http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/) and use the Advanced Query Options to find all the nodes where "Contact" - "Contains" - "appelbaum.net" to find which nodes he administers. Then add the fingerprint of every node you want to avoid to the ExcludeNodes entry.

You should obviously confirm the list above with other sources, because one or all of the following might be true:

1. I may be in cahoots with Jacob, plotting to hack your codez.

2. The directory server I linked to may be a co-conspirator. Fortunately, there are other directory servers you can query.

3. There is no three. Anybody can put up a node and declare anything. If Jacob, or I, are using Tor nodes nefariously, do you really think we'll put our names on them?

P.S. Don't forget to restart Tor after you change the torrc.