On 10/06/2014 04:43 PM, gary...@safe-mail.net wrote: > The reason people find problems with Tor is because the importance of > privacy is hidden in a mystery. Most people don't understand the > reason Tor exist so, how can they judge it? The problem is that it's > easier to focus on evil than it is to focus on good. The good Tor > offers is much weightier than the bad. The good is harder to see > because it's not as tangible as the bad. For those that understand > the details behind the importance of privacy, the good is much > weightier than the bad. This is just a matter of truly understanding > the problem Tor was designed to handle. Can the people finding > problems with Tor correctly describe problem Tor was designed to > handle?
Some of them understand all too well, I think. What they actually oppose are freedom and the right to privacy. The "evil users" that they focus on are just strawmen. They embody the "problem [that] Tor was designed to handle". > -------- Original Message -------- From: grarpamp > <grarp...@gmail.com> Apparently from: > tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org To: > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] How does Tor > help abuse victims? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:12:09 -0400 > >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, z9wahqvh <z9wah...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> On 2014-10-01 13:20, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote: >> >>> the abuser ... he/she (mostly he) >> >> Abuse knows no such boundaries, only statistics. >> >>> The people I work with are writing about Tor, and so far, the >>> negatives keep far outweighing the positives, meaning that the >>> ultimate analysis is likely to draw negative conclusions. >> >> That's because that's what they've grown and wish to see and >> report, particularly in the news for ratings, and in negative >> politics. Tor and the like are merely tools. As with statistics, >> sometimes and with some subjects, you will be hard pressed to find >> the alternative evidence you seek... daylight carries risk to good >> as well. Yet if you can imagine it, it's there. Blue pill, red >> pill... free your mind... whole new worlds of usage will open up. >> That's where the oppurtunity for unique ratings worthy analysis, >> reporting, and policy making resides. -- tor-talk mailing list - >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other >> settings go to >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk