* on the Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:08:10PM -0500, Marcus Griep wrote:
Yes, they should. However, just because people shouldn't be doing something
doesn't mean you should ignore the fact that they are.
Responding to a deficiency in an area which Tor does not attempt to solve is
a poor use of
Tim Wilde wrote:
On 11/18/2009 4:17 AM, Jim wrote:
Google was actually the motivating factor in causing me to get serious
about overcoming whatever problem I had when I first tried to use Tor.
Although my concern at the time was more the ubiquity of
google-analytics. But still concerned
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
* on the Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Lewman 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
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Erilenz eril...@gmail.com wrote:
* on the Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Lewman 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
My question is: do you really think it would help? If people are using
Tor inappropriately (meaning they could get what they want with a
simple anonymous proxy), what are the chances they're going to have it
configured appropriately to reduce the bandwidth they use?
I don't want to weigh in
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46:12AM -0500, Erilenz wrote:
This is one of those ideal/practical arguments. Idealistically, Tor
would only have 3 hop circuits and those who want simple circumvention
wouldn't use it. That doesn't make it the practical truth of what is
happening though.
Even if
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
There are a great many people who have merely encountered one too many
examples of the ubiquitious tracking on the Internet. For example,
Google's abuse of JS fake out the link target display and intercept
outbound links on search has been driving me nuts lately as it
* on the Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:26:10PM +0100, Georg Sluyterman wrote:
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use
cases where that level of protection isn't required. In those cases,
if there was a
On 11/18/2009 4:17 AM, Jim wrote:
Google was actually the motivating factor in causing me to get serious
about overcoming whatever problem I had when I first tried to use Tor.
Although my concern at the time was more the ubiquity of
google-analytics. But still concerned about using their
* on the Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:03:42AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote:
On 11/17/2009 08:57 AM, Erilenz wrote:
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use
cases where that level of protection isn't
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Erilenz eril...@gmail.com wrote:
* on the Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:03:42AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote:
On 11/17/2009 08:57 AM, Erilenz wrote:
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use
cases where that level of protection isn't required. In those cases,
if there was a config option to reduce the number of hops in a circuit
to 2 (or possibly even
Erilenz wrote, On 2009-11-17 14:57:
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use
cases where that level of protection isn't required. In those cases,
if there was a config option to reduce the number of
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org wrote:
People who don't want strong anonymity should use VPNS, single-hop proxy
providers, or setup an ssh tunnel somewhere.
I thought there were plans to offer officially offer a length-two mode?
In particular the current
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Erilenz eril...@gmail.com wrote:
The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from
traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use
cases where that level of protection isn't required. In those cases,
if there was a config
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