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> It’s a constant struggle for Tor to recruit “everyday” users of Tor, who use the service to evade commercial surveillance. That doesn't seem to be a struggle
by jancsika 9y ago
> It’s a constant struggle for Tor to recruit “everyday” users of Tor, who use the service to evade commercial surveillance.
That doesn't seem to be a struggle at all. All kinds of users leverage Tor for all kinds of reasons.
The struggle is to recruit everyday users who have the inclination, technical expertise, and rhetorical skill necessary to defend the technology against all kinds of fearmongering tactics.
There is a general lack of such people. If the same set of interests bent on defeating Tor set their sights on TCP, you can bet that technologists would be struggling to find ways to defend it that could resonate with the general public.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoMy understanding is that there's a huge difference between the proportion of sketchy Tor traffic (largely generated by bots?) and the proportion of sketchy Tor users. People often seem to conflate these two things.