While I believe you have a good point.... On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:29:26 -0400, t...@t-3.net wrote: > > Think bigger, say what? > > Certain of the world's biggest and most well-funded intelligence > agencies hate personal privacy on the internet so much that they've > been going to extreme efforts to destroy it. They are packet sniffing > the NAPs and fiber backbones to pull out everything they can, they > hacked/broke HTTPS, they are backdoored into the big content > providers, they hacked the banking system, they are apparently 'in' > some hardware crypto chips - the list goes on - > > They infiltrated the tech groups which were designing software and > hardware and sabotaged their work, making their crypto be > weaker/breakable and their systems easier to hack into. They use the > vulnerabilities they created to their own ends. > > As of today, Tor appears to provide privacy, at least as far as the > .onion sites goes. Maybe it even works for it's entire function of > providing anonymous internet browsing. > > 'They' would definitely want to be IN this thing, because they either > want to compromise it, or if that doesn't work well enough, destroy > it. 'They' are known to infiltrate and be influential in getting what > they want. Literally, they are professionals at this. 'Getting to > know' the exit relay operators and identifying their bank accounts > would help facilitate things when it came time for them to make their > move. > > In the context of September 2013, this whole thing is scary. It was > perhaps not scary in September of 2012, when we didn't know anything. > Also. It makes me wonder things when, for example, you say "Think > bigger" while pointing to a couple of potential dollars in someone's > pocket. Safeguarding the operators of the exit relays is a bigger deal > than chump change. I'm not making an honest accusation but, to the > people who are the most vocal in approving of this - you don't work > for the NSA, right? :)
....this is probably about making it easier for big exit operators to afford lawyers for when 'they' come around using the law as 'their' tool. :/ If your BW bill is paid, more $$$ to keep you out of jail. Best, -Gordon M. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
