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"What about when your restaurant is frequented entirely by murderers? Will steak knives be good utensils then?"

• axod 16y ago
  That'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 ago
    There 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 ago
      Talk about niche markets...
      • mike-cardwell 16y ago
        Not 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.