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Tor Anonymity Network Reaches 100 Verified Nodes

Posted by timothy on from the needs-some-liver-routing-to-round-it-out dept.

James A. Y. Joyce writes "Tor is an onion routing anonymous network. It routes your data transfers through a series of encrypted links between random nodes in the network; the greater the number of nodes, the greater the anonymity afforded. To commemorate the 100th verified node in the Tor network, the EFF are putting up a request for other organisations and personal users to start up Tor nodes of their own. (Tor has been mentioned on Slashdot twice before.)"

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  1. Re:What about the jerks? by smoany · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are not hundreds of methods for abusing cars per legitimate method for using them (which was the initial context of the poster.

    You may say "but I can come up with thousands of (outlandish) scenarios of how to abuse cars for ever legitimate use."

    Bravo. You have a good imagination. Seriously though, with any technology/freedom/right, one has to weigh the legitimate uses versus the illigitimate uses. It's a relatively dimple equation if you're a utilitarianist:

    Sum(percentage of usage on good use 'i' * "goodness" of use 'i') - Sum(percentage of usage on bad use 'j' * "badness" of use 'j').

    If the result is positive, keep the tech/freedom. If it's negative, ditch it.

    For sunglasses & cars & screwdrivers the answer is overwhelmingly positive. For this technology, it may wery well be negative. I'm not going to coment on the result for this specific tech.

    B.T.W. I'm only responding to the AC in this case because it's been modded up. THis is only insightful in that it doesn't pay attention to the parent and is restating a philosophical trusm (in my opinion).