There is the implication that the tor network can be used for exactly that with some of the side projects that are using tor. Or that using a Tails USB stick is a little like a holy talisman against the evil NSA, when in reality its only really suitable for accessing censored content.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Tempest <[email protected]> wrote: > aka: > > The common user does not apply to all threat models. If you are a high > > volume recreational drug salesman, you must expect 0days and snitches. > > if you're a drug salesman, you're a different type of criminal that has > high value to multiple law enforcement agencies. personally, i don't > care about helping such players learn the game better. > > > If you however are merely a recreational drug consumer, Tor can cover > > all of your security risks, because only low cost automated > > investigation will be used against you. > > and it's utterly worthless when you give a black market salesman a > mailing address. something the nsa likely couldn't care less about. > > > There are many ways to implement better anoynmity than Tor at a useful > > scale, if low latency is sacrificed. > > low latency does not need to be sacrificed. a different opsec game needs > to be played if you have information that a global adversary would care > to prosecute you for. i personally don't care for two-bit criminals. but > people who have evidence of crimes by global adversaries? they need to > be able to learn how to share evidence without fear of prosecution. tor > alone won't do that, and the tor project has never claimed otherwise, > which makes a lot of the recent hysteria i've seen about tor > particuliarly annoying. > > -- > gpg key - 0x2A49578A7291BB34 > fingerprint - 63C4 E106 AC6A 5F2F DDB2 3840 2A49 578A 7291 BB34 > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
