On 08/23/2016 03:05 PM, Sean Lynch wrote:
> people so dumb as to think that there's some vast conspiracy against > Appelbaum. It doesn't have to be vast. All it takes is a few vicious midgets and a critical mass of idiots who parrot them, believe them. Rr > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net > <mailto:ad...@pilobilus.net>> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 08/23/2016 05:08 PM, Sean Lynch wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:07 AM Georgi Guninski > > <gunin...@guninski.com <mailto:gunin...@guninski.com> > <mailto:gunin...@guninski.com <mailto:gunin...@guninski.com>>> wrote: > > > > Appelbaum, CDC, CCC > > > > http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-ban > ned-from-debian-events-after-sexual-misconduct-charges.html > > <http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-banned-from-debian-events-after-sexual-misconduct-charges.html> > > > > Appelbaum banned from Debian events after sexual misconduct > > charges > > > > > > === Appelbaum has also been asked to leave other hacker groups like > > the Cult of the Dead Cow, Noisebridge, and will not be allowed to > > attend events organised by the hacker group Chaos Computer Club. > > === > > > > Are journos exaggerating at least for CCC? > > > > > > So I guess as far as Juan & garpamp, et al are concerned, these > > groups are also infiltrated by or working on behalf of the NSA, > > GCHQ, etc? Are they about to experience mass disillusionment and > > exodus as well, just like all "non-spook" Tor relays are about to > > shut down because "everyone" who's not a spook is on Rapey Jakey's > > side? > > I do expect the stunning success of the operation against Applebaum > will lead to similar attacks against organizations and personalities > considered inconvenient by State and Corporate agencies who "have > relations with" the clandestine services. > > Meanwhile, back in the real world, projects to Fork TOR are already > forming up and assembling resources. Maybe now real work can start on > proposals like variable latency, padding, etc. > > > Wake me up when they release actual code with actual features. It's far > easier to talk about forking than to spin up a successful project. > > I certainly wouldn't mind seeing experimentation with padding & mixing, > but between more innovative features and a more conservative codebase, > I'm not sure which one I'd trust, especially when the former are written > by people so dumb as to think that there's some vast conspiracy against > Appelbaum. > > Perhaps the fork of TBB will come preloaded with bookmarks to some > successor to Pink Meth, /stol on 8chan, etc?