On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 18:57 +0100, mick wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:03:24 -1000
> Name Withheld allegedly wrote:
>
> > Most Tor users probably don't read the manual and follow best
> > practices. I'm sure we've all seen traffic where users are using
> > google maps to find directions from
I meant "we" as in "our nodes." I can guarantee any node you run (of
size) sees that kind of traffic run through it. If you think it
doesn't, I suspect you'll change your mind after spending 30 seconds on
IRC talking to an average user.
On 7/26/2012 7:57 AM, mick wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:47 PM, mick wrote:
> He specifically used the word "traffic". That does not imply shoulder
> surfing.
I think the original messages point was simply: ``we all know that
some people don't use Tor properly." I doubt he is actually sniffing
traffic on his relay (or looking
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
"Steve Snyder" allegedly wrote:
> I took "seen" to mean looking over someone's shoulder as they used
> Tor, not sniffing their traffic.
He specifically used the word "traffic". That does not imply shoulder
surfing.
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On Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:57pm, "mick" said:
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> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:03:24 -1000
> Name Withheld allegedly wrote:
>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:03:24 -1000
Name Withheld allegedly wrote:
> Most Tor users probably don't read the manual and follow best
> practices. I'm sure we've all seen traffic where users are using
> google maps to find directions from their home, or logging into their
> true-name mail accounts
> We opted for the "if we don't stay relevant to the world, Tor will never
> grow enough" route. I think that's still a good decision today.
This is probably an ok thing as everyone knows a useless network
is a dead network. So maybe in times of glut, do some release or
authority based tuning to k
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:03:24AM -1000, Name Withheld wrote:
> I know that this is one of the reasons why "more nodes" is the
> largest everyday push (I went from 1 to 3 in the last month), and
> "we're working on it," and the node-funding push should help some of
> this, but I think it's importa
This is in response to something from Roger's email on funding exit
relays, but I didn't want to derail such an important conversation by
responding directly.
He mentioned:
"At the same time, much of our performance improvement comes
from better load balancing -- that is, concentrati
