punkle jones (punkle.jo...@gmail.com) wrote (in part) (on 2009-06-29
at 10:19):
Unlurking for the first time, I think.
Why not join forces with a popular freeware/shareware product like
Aim or Winamp, with an "uncheck to opt out" option and a description
of tor. Such a bundle could be preset to relay, and there's got to
be a magic bandwidth that most western users could tolerate. Is it
ethically wrong to insert TOR into the userspace of the less-informed
by associating it with a popular (hopefully not unsavory) download?
Does this concept fly in the face of free will? Is it just too
sneaky? It's not like you'd be putting five new toolbars into their
browser.
I've been following this thread with interest. From what I've read our
best guess as to why other users are installing the package which uses
Tor is to provide the means to circumvent the restrictions on quickly
creating multiple accounts for a particular auction group (*Taobao)*.
Correct so far? Presumably the effect of doing this are likely to be
unwelcome to *Taobao.com * management and/or other non-participating
users/bidders/sellers?
Question: ignoring any possible bad reputation this brings to the TOR
community at large does this have the side-effect of increasing exit
nodes and thereby providing more capacity to everyone? Or is typical
usage for those who want to create the multiple accounts just to open
them briefly and then cease immediately with no net noticeable effect on
the TOR network as a whole?
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Regards ... Alec (bura...@gmail & WinLiveMess - alec.m.burg...@skype)
