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Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com)
Reader derekmead writes: Some Tor users are very unhappy with the way the project has been run in recent months, and are calling for a blackout on September 1st. They are asking users to not use Tor, for developers to stop working on Tor, and for those who run parts of the network's infrastructure to shut it down. The disgruntled users feel that Tor can no longer be fully trusted after a brief hiring of an ex-CIA official and the internal sexual misconduct investigation against activist Jacob Appelbaum.
Why a general?
Can't a major or a lieutenant colonel handle this?
I understand the possible conflict of interest in working with ex-CIA, although the fact that they'd admit working for the CIA seems dangerous and sketchy, but I don't understand the Applebaum thing. Are folks against sexual harassment/misconduct, or are they against investigating harassment/misconduct?
This same soap opera was just posted 11 hours ago. Is it really necessary to repost?
https://politics.slashdot.org/...
For some reason these dupes do make me feel at home here. The world is changing rapidly, but Slashdot stays just the way it is, with 15-year old layout and editors that cant even read their own front page.
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1
"Here governments, here's our top secret network with eleventy encryption, and here's the source, and feel free to join it and handle a portion of its traffic."
It was compromised as soon as it was released.
What happens when you survive by forcing your views on others and are faced with a system of cryptography that lets people ignore you?
I think you ran this last night, anyhow there are serious questions about the allegations given that one of the anonymous "victims" came forward, said the people involved had not even talked to her and had invented their own story that did not match what happened.
But all this will get lost as people fight by making accusations about one another because nobody actually cares what happened, they're just here to tell others what horrible people they are to make themselves feel better. Okay, I'm done, your turn now, Slashdot.
Just click and go to the first instance of this identical story...
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/08/22/0319205/group-wants-to-shut-down-tor-for-a-day-on-september-1
I was wondering where I can submit my resume to become a Slashdot editor? Because a full-time salary for the total lack of effort sounds pretty great!
vai dar teu cuzinho que tua vontade de trabalhar comigo passa sua RETARDADA FILHA DA PUTA.
I'll be using Tor the same amount as always on that ludicrous MRA Protest Day. I might even use it a little more, just because.
Maybe l'll use Tor to come to Slashdot and read the next dupe...
#DeleteChrome
When did the word "Activist" come to mean any whiny bitch with a gripe about anything?
I fail to see how this would improve TOR.
Maybe each person who thinks there is a problem should get involved with the process. If you can't code, run a node. Try to get into testing or governance.
Try convincing a well know and trusted person to get involved. Contribute cash for the above mentioned activities.
The open source world provided us with more freedom to fix things. With proprietary software all we could do is whine. The converse is also true. Whining for somebody else to do something isn't very respected in the open source world.
I love how this story is not only a dupe, but i can see both on my screen at the same time on the front page.
good job /.
The argument against this "strike" is that it would shutdown TOR for a day, and would force journalists and dissidents to use a different (more risky) communication method instead.
Do the strikers in the TOR group actually have the power to turn off TOR itself, or are they just threatening to shut down their personal nodes?
If they really do have the power to completely turn off TOR worldwide, what is to stop that power being co-opted (or hacked) by a government?
The way the Internet has been devolving into just one big surveillance/spying/malware platform, and now with ICANN ceding control over to someone else, the TOR network may become the last bastion of a truly free and open Internet. Yes, it's the Wild West inside there to be sure, but you do have a higher degree of anonymity and a lesser degree of being spied on and surveilled. I can see a possible future where onion routing networks, with sites operating within them, are the only relatively safe places you could go. Let's not start artillery barrages against TOR, okay?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
and I wouldn't expect anything to change, duplicate stories are part of our DNA. The question becomes, why delete the old story?
Yes, he was a Republican who waged war against states' rights.
See subject: As others have alluded to here today, the "powers that be" have created DOUBT & doubt IS dangerous...
* The world's become a big "mind-fuck" (always been this way but it seems to have been 'honed' to a FINE art the past decade++ imo...)
Too bad in a way - TOR, in its concept & intent, is NOT A "BAD THING" really... how it's misused however imo is (you can't be up to "much good" IF/WHEN you're hiding your origin point when not forced to).
Infiltration? It works... sad, & the province of weasels, but it IS effective.
APK
P.S.=> Do I respect that type of thing? No, not really - any moron can do it, doesn't take brains, but you can't argue with success either... apk
I like the slashdot layout. It is very intuitive, easy to read and navigate, with very little wasted space.
I don't care how long ago someone came up with the idea. It was a good one. It is worth sticking-with.
I"M MR ROBOT, I CONTROLL ALL THE EXIT NODES
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt sown.
Principals divided.
While focus and energy is diverted to the search for "truth", the real truth is that fewer people will trust their secrets to Tor as a result.
Mission accomplished.
The Marxists (including British and American ones) of then called Franco a Fascist, so that enough sheeple would join the fight.
The liars failed and Franco saved Spain from communist terror.
You feel a need to explain yourself to the Marxists, enemies of the white man and his freedom. Soon you will explain yourself to the mideast tyranny these friends of the Muselmans will erect.
Best Submission !
It doesn't sound like they're getting played by the intelligence agencies AT ALL.
Don't just stand there, get that other dog!
Tor management should just shut down the project completely in response to the whiny privileged white boyz..
And the privileged white boyz have mod points--welcome to /.
Yes, the whiny privileged white boyz will be absolutely shattered to find themselves unable to torrent and buy illicit drugs for their dumb-ass parties.
Meanwhile, thousands of unprivileged brown and yellow boyz will be absolutely murdered when their anonymous network connections are eliminated and their repressive governments can identify them and string them up.
But man-oh-man, please don't hold muh hero accountable for his shitty behavior!
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