On 11/23/2019 04:23 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 15:39:55 -0700 > Mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> The villains here are writers of the Tor Project website. They bullshit >> users, overselling Tor. Why, I don't know. Maybe it's all a honeypot. Or >> maybe they're just idiots. > > Notice that they get paid as long as tor exists. So even if tor was not > a honeypot, and they are not idiots, they still have a fundamental incentive > to oversell it. Their paychecks.
Yeah, good point. After those FOIA documents came out, I lost all respect for the Tor Project. I get how conflicted they were. Needing government support. Keeping the cops happy. Maybe having their jobs threatened. But selling out is selling out, no matter how many excuses one has. > Also, syverson and co. are complicit in overselling tor, despite the > fact that their papers for the 'technical intelligentsia' spell out the > limitations. Agreed. >> I've wondered whether it's just that they need lots of users for cover >> traffic. That _was_ a major factor in opening Tor to the public, instead >> of restricting it to government users. But that seems unlikely, now, >> given that the NSA etc could easily run enough bots on hacked servers. > > > My guess is that the main reason for them to get as many users as they > can is to justify funding. Hell, maybe they even get a percentage of funding > directly proportional to number of users/network size. Makes sense.
