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You know what tor needs far more than a rewrite in some corporate meme language? Someone to work on the onion services side. There's plenty of people working on
by superkuh 5y ago
You know what tor needs far more than a rewrite in some corporate meme language? Someone to work on the onion services side. There's plenty of people working on the pseudoanonymous proxy to the clear web features but .onion is left to decay and rot (https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline).
Because of the lack of developer resources or anyone at the tor project giving a damn they have removed support for all tor v2 as of october 15th (a week ago). And this is extremely silly since >90% of HSDirs are tor v2 (https://www.encryptionin.space/tracking-hsdirs-and-the-version-of-tor-they-run https://www.encryptionin.space/tracking-hsdirs-and-the-versi...). But they don't have the resources to maintain the (slightly less secure) v2 stuff alongside v3, so they're just throwing the entire 15 years of all of tor's domains, linking, search indices, and writing in the trash and starting anew from very few users and little infrastructure.
And apparently no one cares that Tor has deleted itself. No news. No blog posts. Nothing but the well hidden post and upset comments from a year ago. I've talked to various people on their IRC and they say even if people continue to run tor v2 supporting clients The Tor Project will eventually push out their centralized consensus flag to ban them from the network.
- Zababa 5y agov2 are deprecated of safety. The "rewrite in some corporate meme language" would address this issue.
- hyproxia 5y ago>The "rewrite in some corporate meme language" would address this issue. No it won't, the issues with v2 are with its design, not its implementation.
- hyproxia 5y agoOff-topic, but can someone tell me if this comment is phrased properly? I suspect that using "with" twice in the sentence is a little bit wrong, but I don't know how to correct it.
- Zababa 5y agoI think it's fine but the repetition sounds wrong, if that makes sense.
- jrh206 5y agoPersonally I would say: “the issue with v2 is its design, not its implementation” or “one of the issues with v2 is its design, not its implementation”. However your initial phrasing is perfectly intelligible, and probably grammatical (not that that’s so important, if it’s intelligible).
- superkuh 5y agoThe way users of v2 effect the safety of v3 and the tor project is in terms of directory and resources, etc, and potential exhaustion attacks native to v2. But with porting and some work most of this could be mitigated. The safety of the hash and the length used couldn't but there still isn't a real world example of a collision in use. It's pretty drastic to entirely throw away 15 years of inter-linking, indices, etc when <5% of users (probably less) of onion services have switched to v3.