Thanks for the heads up.
Mike J
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From: Michael Burns <mich...@mirwin.net>
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org>
Sent: Sun, August 1, 2010 1:36:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Thoughts on Tor?
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mike Jessop <tndad6...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever used Tor or any application/network like it? How about
> Freenet, WASTE, Onionland, I2P or other?
Try them all.
Tor is rather easy to get going, with Vidalia and the Tor Button
plugin for Firefox. It just add a 30-second lag to the Internet known
as anonymity (which is not other things, like security or privacy or
distributed caching like Freenet). Play around with it.
Freenet is easy to use, but rather slow (like, multi-minute page load
times, after dozen of timeouts and 404 pages. But sometimes it works
rather alright) and more theoretically interesting than it is
practically usable. Though it is a fun experiment if you don't mind
**accidentally*seeing*graphic*and*offensive*porn*and*shock*videos**.
Such things can generally be avoided, but you're playing with Internet
fire and can possibly get burned. Things that have been seen cannot
not be unseen, and so on.
WASTE is not production-ready software and minimal development effort
is put into it. Fun to play with, though.
--
Michael Burns * http://unemployable.me
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