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Tor - The Yin or the Yang?

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-the-shadows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a interesting article on Tor, The Onion Router project sponsored by the EFF. Tor aims to offer anonymous internet use. Once sponsored by the Naval Research Lab with support from DARPA, it is now managed by The Free Haven Project. Although Tor claims to improve safety and security, the article goes into detail on how Tor can be used as a anonymous attack platform."

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  1. Re:Cultural Idiots by atteSmythe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Messup is [sic] from TFA.

  2. Re:Cultural Idiots by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, isn't it a mistake to try to seperate the two?

    It's the "Yin and Yang", or the 'Yin-Yang' as I understand it-- two opposite pieces of the same energy, both integral and complementary to each other. They cannot be removed from the whole, or the whole is destroyed.

    Using the word 'or' actually distorts the original meaning-- 'or' imply two different pieces, the Yin OR Yang-- with we're really talking about one thing.

    Yes, this sounds pedantic, but I think it's actually an important difference.

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  3. Re:the need by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Informative

    any good thing doesn't require you to hide behind anything.

    Well for example, it can be used by dissidents to safely express their political views, be it in the PRC, Burma or the United States...

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  4. Re:Of course it can be abused by ckimyt · · Score: 3, Informative
    For a society to be free, it MUST be possible for people to do things that are against the law. That's just how it works. If people do something illegal then you can punish them, but only an extremely facist government could hope to prevent crimes before they occur.
    But you don't just want a free society, you want a just society. When people can commit crimes anonymously, there is no punishment.

    So avoid facism, but retain your ability to punish those to actually do break the law.
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  5. Latency hurts, however... by nweaver · · Score: 4, Informative

    A: Tor is a documented protocol. If you really REALLY want to block Tor on your network, configure your IDS to recognise the protocol setup, and kill THAT.

    B: You can't quake through Tor. Tor only supports TCP, and it adds a fair bit of latency to boot.

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