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Why? What about when your service is used exclusively by law breakers? Will anonymity be a great policy then?
by axod 16y ago
Why?
What about when your service is used exclusively by law breakers? Will anonymity be a great policy then?
- gloob 16y ago"What about when your restaurant is frequented entirely by murderers? Will steak knives be good utensils then?"
- axod 16y agoThat's a very very poor analogy. Advertising your service as an untraceable anonymous service, is attractive to certain groups of people. A large amount of those are going to be engaging in unlawful activities. The analogy would be advertising your restaurant as one in which you are permitted to enter wearing full body disguises and helped with your exit through various escape routes. The restaurant owners will provide gloves for you, remove any traces of your DNA, etc. Don't you think such a restaurant would then be used by murderers? I would agree with your analogy in that an 'anonymous restaurant', where you are granted complete anonymity whilst inside, would also be a recipe for disaster. You kinda forgot the 'anonymity' bit in your analogy though... Convenient ;)
- mike-cardwell 16y agoThere are plenty of good people out there who need anonymity. People whos lives depend on it. Just because you don't need anonymity doesn't mean you should deprive everyone else of it.
- axod 16y agoTalk about niche markets...
- mike-cardwell 16y agoNot sure what your point is. How many users does a non profit service need before it's no longer niche and worth pursuing? Even if Tor only had 100 users who were safer for it, I'd say it was worth it.
- keefe 16y agoThere are many unjust laws, especially in countries other than the US. Each of us has a right to privacy. This allows for nefarious activities but it also enables many forms of creativity.
- axod 16y agoPrivacy = good Anonymity = bad Just my 2c.
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- keefe 16y agohow can you have privacy without anonymity from your information service providers?
- jrockway 16y agoIf you want upvotes, please explain why you think this. Who is "jrockway"? Why would being more anonymous or less anonymous make my comments more or less useful or interesting? If anonymity is bad, why do you use a nickname here?
- axod 16y agoIf anonymity isn't an issue, lets just get rid of the nicknames altogether and turn into 4chan. Once you allow anonymity, you also allow impersonation, endless trolling, abuse, etc etc.
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- ax0d 16y agoAnonymity is hardly necessary to hassle or troll (or even impersonate) people.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoI think it's creepy that lots of random people can see what you're doing on the Internet, nefarious stuff or not. So I see enabling privacy wherever possible as a step in the right direction, regardless if it attracts users or not. In this case, I didn't think too hard about it. James proposed the idea a few days ago. I looked into it and set it up yesterday, and announced this morning. As for the service being used exclusively by law breakers, I think that hypothetical is far-fetched. DDG has plenty of users now that don't care much about privacy, and I don't think most Tor users are law breakers. So I see this whole line of reasoning as a non-issue.
- axod 16y agoWell, good luck as always... Just remember what happened to Reddit.