-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 6/7/2016 1:30 PM, Rick Evans wrote: > Could be Tor is not a honey pot, maybe it is Tar Baby. > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Not Friendly > <notfrien...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> On 2016-06-07 13:48, Anthony Papillion wrote: >> > On 6/7/2016 12:13 PM, Not Friendly wrote: > >>>>> On 2016-06-07 02:35, a...@cock.lu wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> First they fall for the social justice meme thinking it's >>>>>> a force for good. Then they allow the project to be >>>>>> infiltrated by the blue haired problem glasses brigade. >>>>>> Then they start modifying their community guidelines to >>>>>> appease their new members, probably under the guise that >>>>>> it's to prevent evil sexist MRAs from "harassing" (read: >>>>>> disagreeing with) their new SJW friends. Then the SJWs >>>>>> decide prominent members of the project need to be cyber >>>>>> lynched so they can take over. "Jacob once farted in the >>>>>> same elevator as me, it was literally rape! >>>>>> #FireHimOrTorIsRapists" "Jacob once disagreed with me, it >>>>>> was a legitimate death threat that made me fear for my >>>>>> life! #FireHimOrTorWantsToKillAllWomen" "He once >>>>>> mentioned playing a video game, I knew he was a >>>>>> gamergater! Damn misogynist hates women! >>>>>> #KillAllWhiteMen" Then Tor loses their best spokesman. >>>>>> The SJWs and their friends fill the now empty jobs and >>>>>> repeat the process until they're the only ones with power >>>>>> over the project. Then Tor dies, since the only "work" >>>>>> that gets done is virtue signalling on Twitter. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's only a matter of time before they eat Nick or >>>>>> Roger. >>>>>> >>>>>> RIP Jacob. RIP Tor. >>>>>> >>>>>> Usually I get a lot of schadenfreude from watching >>>>>> idiots destroy themselves like this, but Tor is close to >>>>>> my heart so I'm quite sad. The NSA has won. >>>>>> >>>>> I'm unsure how "Tor" has in anyway died. The network is >>>>> still secure. They only thing that happened is that a >>>>> former member of the Tor Project has bad publicity. I'm >>>>> unsure how that makes Tor dead. >>>>> > > It doesn't. The Tor haters never miss an opportunity to declare > Tor "dead". "Oh! It's Tuesday! RIP Tor!". It's often the same crowd > (or associates of them) that love to declare Tor a honeypot for > the federal government. > > Anyway, I'm just wondering when this list move beyond the recent > sensationalism and back to actually discussing Tor. > > > >>> >> >> I do not understand why those people think that Tor is a honeypot >> by the federal government. It is OPEN SOURCE. If you are by any >> means worried look at the source code and compile it manually. >> There is no hiding a backdoor. Unless every relay operator is >> helping the federal government (which at that point the >> information would leak) then there isn't a way to backdoor Tor. I >> don't understand why people do not take the time to research >> things. >> >> -- Not Friendly
Because, I suspect, most of those people couldn't evaluate even the simplest C++ program for security. It's much easier just to parrot the controversial "honeypot" line than it is to actually look at the code. Some of them are just lazy. But then I guess there are legit concerns surrounding relays. THAT would likely be the easiest point of attack on the network -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXVymfAAoJEAKK33RTsEsVCmkQALEUQvJMs9/1vjOHdXtX2Taq rFOf2cYrPp/LuXBCJ6llJXg5FFrDDVpJd14wULGBaX+qEK6R10xEGwNhUwsp8tVj xSimMKJA2uv3pHgE980yrCSs7UObMshVZz80S+QwV9vMcBAdT081ElFJCC6Dz6fz x1vX5UP54rFUwRKnD3fOFmw+CjGyXoZQWQctBrS1gbV5XbZhlnKbexXbLwAmHgaR uDJZsqheyC1nr72A+dbIUa89Ye+TesiMBJC40xuVu03wp1ZYACmqauu7UiBeYEGq irQT3VeiOYWYwq4UzG2VRej5uaLCdcwvivNNS4rKszcKEMrTD175Htg/bVJgOC62 9p+ZeLCGwxIoOwpSohovnWTbLpctJVWz8QL1sb50W1zdYwtsp0pmvvFpaYe55foy /qC4xW8heNRUhhv5u2e8UE/1KVsCSa44Z1fOwU0N5V3S0kh7Py8YFHkp9dolCA/S W1XkMgJNpyJlQElHdhegXNE0m6539i0VOSFD7OkvtZhblbPnqlchQlCWVFLvPDPY ZoUPRoji76GgwEMHv70uhmnRMXvjtg4Nw5CzwFJuckNDFQbVW4f7kmEQCD1EU5zf 8rEhs576Tc+kCwG236rI35PRu18FVqNtL1DCcptQ/7pR76Pl9vmFC91aF4KIAOLv 7aCTgSTDnBjCloen5mJX =yz4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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