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One very important thing that TOR provides is additional routes when international routing between ISPs is blocked/broken for whatever reason. Several websites
by SLWW 3y ago
One very important thing that TOR provides is additional routes when international routing between ISPs is blocked/broken for whatever reason.
Several websites (that are legal, legitimate in nature) get censored by tier-1 ISPs (for whatever reason) however even though they are clearnet websites, you can still view them out of country, since with TOR you can keep refreshing your routes until you get access.
- goodpoint 3y agoIt's written "Tor", not "TOR".
- toastal 3y agoGood example: I needed to get voter information abroad in order to get a mail-in ballot, but the government website blocked all foreign origin connections.
- Dah00n 3y agoHow awful. Which country?
- toastal 3y agoUnited States of America an eagle screeches in the distance
- ghgr 3y agoFun fact: the bald eagle scream heard in most movies and television shows is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/03/28/do-you-really-know-what-a-bald-eagle-sounds-like/ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/03/28/do-you-...
- heywoodlh 3y agoThis should be considered unconstitutional...
- TechBro8615 3y agoPersonally I think it should be illegal for government websites to even present you with a captcha, especially one from a hostile corporation like Google. But this is a battle I've long since quit fighting...
- orangepurple 3y agoIt doesn't matter anyway. They can claim a million mail in ballots and there is no way to verify it beyond "just trust us" which we clearly do not.
- gruez 3y agoCan't you make the same argument for regular ballots?
- toastal 3y agoRewriting history is a part of our culture
- hkt 3y agoI read about the long walk of the Navajo recently. You can say that again..
- chayesfss 3y agoJust tried to rescue one by my property, poor thing passed
- RajT88 3y agoI knew this academically from a while back, but have seen it in the wild by my house where I have both hawks and bald eagles. Late at night I also get those classic spooky owl noises (great horned owl).
- RajT88 3y agoI recently wanted to check the price of tickets on Ticketmaster. Got an error about me looking like a bot (this was clearnet from a foreign country). Same deal with Tor. This is why we cannot have nice things. Ticketmaster wants to keep all the scalping on their platform and not anyone else's.
- technological 3y agoJust curious - Does VPN help in this case ? Or do you prefer Tor
- smashed 3y agoTor exit nodes are also frequently blocked or severely scrutinized... I'm surprised it worked.. Maybe since it was official government affairs, any US ip address had to be let through no matter what.
- daniel-s 3y agoIs there any mechanism to control this in the UI? It seems like something users would want: exit from XYZ country.
- DaSHacka 3y agoNot in the GUI but its possible via modifying the torrc file[0]. [0] https://communitydocs.accessnow.org/147-Tor_force_exit_nodes.html https://communitydocs.accessnow.org/147-Tor_force_exit_nodes...
- TechBro8615 3y agoTor* [0]: > Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong. [0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/ https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/
- SLWW 3y agoI remember it back in the day as fully capitalized. Now that the TorProject has opted to correct the record, it is too little too late. Most presentations at the time did use "TOR" and it was called the TOR router. Even they understand the acronym comes from the original onion routing project from the Naval Research Lab. All that to say, I don't know why they would try to distance themselves from what it was, and what it still is.
- TechBro8615 3y agoMaybe they changed it because it seemed redundant to say "TOR router" (like ATM machine)... :) Either way I don't mind, but personally I think "Tor" looks more professional, less shouty, and doesn't conflict with "top of rack" router/switch (which is a thing in datacenters). I have noticed that the Tor project is pretty protective of their brand, e.g. if you start a project including "Tor" in its name they will complain and ask you to clarify lack of affiliation.
- asynchronous 3y agoWhile I know that’s the correct answer from the tor project, I still dislike it. It was/IS an acronym. Capitalization I’ve seen used across people familiar and unfamiliar with the tech.
- codetrotter 3y agoI like it better as Tor than capitalised. All-uppercase words are a bit shouty.