Images and videos of child abuse are a very small part of Tor. Most of the traffic consists of ordinary adult pornography.
You have to understand that if you want to peddle child pornography, Tor is a lousy place due to the slow speeds. Far better to buy time on some russian anonymous proxy.
I think I've read research showing that even most child molesters are not pedophiles. Also, I don't think it's technically illegal to be a pedophile in any country, but since sharing child pornography is illegal it's irrelevant if the perpetrator is a pedophile, child molester, or just some random guy.
It's not necessary that convoluted. The legal action is taken by the UK-based court on this particular work of the UK-based researcher, working at the University of Birmingham. The original article reads as if the court almost initiated this themselves, due to an ongoing case involving Volkswagen Group. Not sure how that actually holds up.
Indeed. And normally in cases like this, the researchers alert the people responsible for fixing the problem in good time before publication. In some (many?) cases, the people in charge of the problem doesn't take it seriously, downplaying the risks, or plays the never ending blame-the-contractor game. In that case the only way forward is to threaten to publish the information.
I don't know what happens here, the article never mentions either scenario, but seeing how the people behind the article are serious researchers, I don't think it's very far fetched to guess that they have at least taken some sort of responsible action before publishing the paper. It says that the source code for the crypto has been available since 2009, but hard to know what that means.
It doesn't seem to include a gag order, at least not from the original article in The Guardian. They don't link to the court order, however.
It also doesn't completely ban publication. First of all it's temporary, second, it allowed them to publish a paper without the specific codes. An offer they apparently refused, according to the article.
You only need to trace whatever you're interested in. If someone releases a revolutionary video coder encrypted with this algorithm, you run it through your tracer, record (and compress!) the raw instruction stream, and you'll have the actual algorithm that the CPU is executing. You're not going to decode all possible failure modes, nor any code that isn't actually executed, but you will get the algorithm that just encoded your video. The compression might even get you individual subroutines..
Seems to me that it works well. After some up and down while moderators battle about what would be the best option, it has come out as somewhat insightful.
If you've been on slashdot as long as you claim, you must also have seen all those newbies whining as soon as their comment is down-modded, not realizing that there are actually more than two moderators reading, and that the score will vary during the course of a day or two. Don't be one of them.
If this wasn't a targeted attack against Lenovo by the US Gov't, wouldn't they ban *all* hardware made in the PRC, which includes Apple, Dell, etc.?
I think they focus on Lenovo partially because they are rumoured to be controlled by the Chinese government (which doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny), and partially because they own their own production facilities instead of using other companies for production.
Personally I think it's bullshit, but that's what I could come up with.
Well, to be honest, it won't provide for faster bitcoin crunching, gene folding, UFO findings, 3D rendering, slashdot posting, and other tasks popular with contemporary users of computing devices.
That said, there is a whole generation growing up who thinks the generic news with 5 lines of information and 2000 lines of unwarranted conclusions are the standard for news. A fertile field for would-be demagogues.
Oh yes, the kids today, they don't know the value of the printed medium. Always in a hurry. In olden times it was different. The periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything.
Oh wait. That was written over a hundred years ago. You kids today can't even come up with original bitching and whining!
http://xkcd.com/1227/ for some more interesting quotes!
Or it could be put to good use. For example, you could program the interest list to only show that you're very very interested in a particular political party during election time, as a way to spam your agenda to the advertisers and inflate some polls.
Or when I recently was looking for a very specific piece of hardware, second hand because it has not been manufactured for a long time. I could have programmed my "interest filter" to only show that hardware as my interest, maybe the ad-trawlers would've found it for me!
Ok, maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all.
How about giving users the ability to visit different "web sitez" or what you call them, depending on their interest?
So for example, if I am interested in hockey, and live in Sweden, I could type in, say, "www.swehockey.se" in some sort of text input field in the browser.
This way, you wouldn't actually have to send any information at all to some unknown third party!
In countries where they speak a dialect of English, it's polite to try to speak that dialect.
Actually, you just made this up. This has never been the case, and I'd argue the opposite. Then again, I don't have any sources to back that up so I won't seriously claim that.
In very rare cases does someone need to take any supplements at all. If one pays attention to having a proper diet one can get all the vitamins needed naturally. Part of the whole vitamin craze is how lazy people are. It can take some thought and effort to eat a healthy diet containing all the nutrients a body needs to thrive. It's quite worth doing so though.
So uhm, yeah. Which one is it? Rare cases or almost all cases?
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Images and videos of child abuse are a very small part of Tor. Most of the traffic consists of ordinary adult pornography.
You have to understand that if you want to peddle child pornography, Tor is a lousy place due to the slow speeds. Far better to buy time on some russian anonymous proxy.
I think I've read research showing that even most child molesters are not pedophiles. Also, I don't think it's technically illegal to be a pedophile in any country, but since sharing child pornography is illegal it's irrelevant if the perpetrator is a pedophile, child molester, or just some random guy.
Not unless banning the products in question would be too disruptive to consumers and the economy. Unlikely for a small company.
I hope they don't get it! All the facts I need to know is in the BIBLE!
It's not necessary that convoluted. The legal action is taken by the UK-based court on this particular work of the UK-based researcher, working at the University of Birmingham. The original article reads as if the court almost initiated this themselves, due to an ongoing case involving Volkswagen Group. Not sure how that actually holds up.
Indeed. And normally in cases like this, the researchers alert the people responsible for fixing the problem in good time before publication. In some (many?) cases, the people in charge of the problem doesn't take it seriously, downplaying the risks, or plays the never ending blame-the-contractor game. In that case the only way forward is to threaten to publish the information.
I don't know what happens here, the article never mentions either scenario, but seeing how the people behind the article are serious researchers, I don't think it's very far fetched to guess that they have at least taken some sort of responsible action before publishing the paper. It says that the source code for the crypto has been available since 2009, but hard to know what that means.
It doesn't seem to include a gag order, at least not from the original article in The Guardian. They don't link to the court order, however.
It also doesn't completely ban publication. First of all it's temporary, second, it allowed them to publish a paper without the specific codes. An offer they apparently refused, according to the article.
The original article (after clicking through a couple of blog-layers) indicates that the software leaked to the internet four years ago.
Because if they block the documents, organized crime will never find out.
Not having to zoom the view in and out when doing CAD work and being able to read text fluently without bad kerning/font hinting getting in the way.
You only need to trace whatever you're interested in. If someone releases a revolutionary video coder encrypted with this algorithm, you run it through your tracer, record (and compress!) the raw instruction stream, and you'll have the actual algorithm that the CPU is executing. You're not going to decode all possible failure modes, nor any code that isn't actually executed, but you will get the algorithm that just encoded your video. The compression might even get you individual subroutines..
But it won't be pretty. :)
Seems to me that it works well. After some up and down while moderators battle about what would be the best option, it has come out as somewhat insightful.
If you've been on slashdot as long as you claim, you must also have seen all those newbies whining as soon as their comment is down-modded, not realizing that there are actually more than two moderators reading, and that the score will vary during the course of a day or two. Don't be one of them.
Care to cite some of these crimes, or are you just venting?
If this wasn't a targeted attack against Lenovo by the US Gov't, wouldn't they ban *all* hardware made in the PRC, which includes Apple, Dell, etc.?
I think they focus on Lenovo partially because they are rumoured to be controlled by the Chinese government (which doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny), and partially because they own their own production facilities instead of using other companies for production.
Personally I think it's bullshit, but that's what I could come up with.
Well, to be honest, it won't provide for faster bitcoin crunching, gene folding, UFO findings, 3D rendering, slashdot posting, and other tasks popular with contemporary users of computing devices.
That said, there is a whole generation growing up who thinks the generic news with 5 lines of information and 2000 lines of unwarranted conclusions are the standard for news. A fertile field for would-be demagogues.
Oh yes, the kids today, they don't know the value of the printed medium. Always in a hurry. In olden times it was different. The periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything.
Oh wait. That was written over a hundred years ago. You kids today can't even come up with original bitching and whining!
http://xkcd.com/1227/ for some more interesting quotes!
And of course, everyone here knows that the answer is plain marketing bullshit.
Or it could be put to good use. For example, you could program the interest list to only show that you're very very interested in a particular political party during election time, as a way to spam your agenda to the advertisers and inflate some polls.
Or when I recently was looking for a very specific piece of hardware, second hand because it has not been manufactured for a long time. I could have programmed my "interest filter" to only show that hardware as my interest, maybe the ad-trawlers would've found it for me!
Ok, maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all.
:D
up to a few weeks ago so were the NSA, FBI, CIA
There are few times I actually smile when I write a smiley, but this is one of them.
I have a revolutiounary idea!
How about giving users the ability to visit different "web sitez" or what you call them, depending on their interest?
So for example, if I am interested in hockey, and live in Sweden, I could type in, say, "www.swehockey.se" in some sort of text input field in the browser.
This way, you wouldn't actually have to send any information at all to some unknown third party!
It could be that certain agencies are exempt from the law. For your own safety of course. It's better that you don't know.
All the studies i checked (sorry no ref, that was 15 years ago)
You should read some more recent studies from 2000
Actually, 2000 is 13 years ago, not far from 15. But yeah, technically more recent.
In countries where they speak a dialect of English, it's polite to try to speak that dialect.
Actually, you just made this up. This has never been the case, and I'd argue the opposite. Then again, I don't have any sources to back that up so I won't seriously claim that.
Sounds like the reason in this case being nostalgia.
In very rare cases does someone need to take any supplements at all. If one pays attention to having a proper diet one can get all the vitamins needed naturally. Part of the whole vitamin craze is how lazy people are. It can take some thought and effort to eat a healthy diet containing all the nutrients a body needs to thrive. It's quite worth doing so though.
So uhm, yeah. Which one is it? Rare cases or almost all cases?