On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:27 AM, morristan <morris...@tormail.org> wrote: > Perhaps the Silk Road people should donate to Tor. Perhaps they should fund > hidden service improvements in Tor. Perhaps both.
I doubt that the Tor Project will ever acknowledge such support. Tor developers (or at least policy people) like to pretend that Tor is used for purposes that they consider morally right, and ignore the uses that are morally wrong [1]. I believe it's an american thing — one typical tell-tale sign is treating criminals as some masterminds who can already easily achieve what they want [2] (americans are used to doing the same in gun control debates), and ignoring the fact that the project facilitates anonymity for criminals just as well, if not more, as for non-criminals. Personally, I don't understand what's the big deal about the make-believe game, and it probably detracts from the project's credibility, but it's fun to watch nevertheless. I actually intend to write a Tor server patch to be able to gather .onion access statistics on relays, once I am sufficiently bored, just for the fun cognitive dissonance potential (expecting drugs and CP forums to top the list). [1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html#WhatAboutCriminals [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vdhs8/hi_iama_we_are_core_members_of_the_tor_project/c53j9j9 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
