On 11/19/2009 04:47 AM, Erilenz wrote: > That's fine, as long as you're assuming that people only use Tor when they > need > strong anonymity. As soon as you realise that people who don't need strong > anonymity are using it as well, your point fails. Whether or not they *should* > be doing so is irrelevant. The options are: > > 1.) Ignore that they're doing it > 2.) Prevent them from doing it > 3.) Make their impact smaller when they are doing it > > I choose 3.
You are going to BMW asking them to include features from Ford, because you personally like some features found in Ford trucks. If only BMW cars would include these features, then you'd buy a BMW and stop complaining about the lack of Ford features. This is the borderline definition of trolling. Until the research shows less than three hops is as safe as the current three hops, we as the Tor Project are not changing the default number of hops. If you want simple circumvention without strong anonymity, there are ten thousand or so open proxies in the world, which are free. If you want strong anonymity, use Tor. The current research on anonymity networks is conveniently collected for you at http://freehaven.net/anonbib/. Cypherpunks write code. Feel free to write code so you can screw your own anonymity with the speed and efficiency you claim to want. Others have already done this; some even got talks at blackhat or defcon for changing a line of code or two. Google search has your answers. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/