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Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products

Posted by Zonk on from the whoami dept.

Iorek writes "PC World lauds Tor, an anonymous Internet communication system, as better than its paid competitors, and one of the best 100 products of 2005. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is supporting Tor development, has a press release as well."

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  1. Such hypocrisy. by King_of_Prussia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does slashdot get away with publicly lauding Tor as the great application that it is, while simultaneously blocking over 90% of the nodes from posting to slashdot? Try it now, it took me thirty tries to post a comment to slashdot using Tor the other day.

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    1. Re:Such hypocrisy. by stormcoder · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I've complained repeatedly about this and I haven't gotten a response.

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  2. Onion routers are by no means new but Tor is by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Tor uses something called Onion Routing. But interestingly the original system was heavily patented and Tor had to work around all of those with something called "Telescopic Circuits". The problem (as far as my feeble brain understands) is that this is suitable for connection oriented data, but not for routing each packet a different way - seriously I'd love to run Tor as tun0 so that my IP packets head a different way and do point-to-point, but that seems to be a distant dream. Right now it seems to be just protocol proxying.

    And the problem with onion routing is that it is neither high-bandwidth or low-latency - just anonymous. Sharing files over Tor is a blatant misuse - but tracker comm over it is perfectly valid (Azureus already has a plugin - though I like dht better).

    Interestingly, I2P calls them Garlic routers (the pun is not lost on some of us).
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