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I would be extremely cautious about connecting to these interim hosts that provide access to the rest of the Tor network. If I were a government bent on survei
by mustpax 17y ago
I would be extremely cautious about connecting to these interim hosts that provide access to the rest of the Tor network.
If I were a government bent on surveillance, the first thing I would do after blacklisting legitimate hosts would be to publicize my own malicious connection points. Here, little bee, have some honey.
- electromagnetic 17y agoI don't want to be a bee near your back yard, or a Tor user in any country you potentially run.
- chaosmachine 17y agoHoneypots attract bears, not bees. Bees make the honey. http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bear http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bear
- mustpax 17y agoI might very well be wrong about that, my knowledge of English idioms can be lacking at times. However, in my experience bees are attracted to sugary material like honey even though they themselves make it. And a Google image search returns many results as well: http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bee http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bee
- buugs 17y agoNot to skew your point because indeed bees are attracted to honey but that image search has less meaning as many honeypots have bees on them while traditionaly bears are shown as being attracted to honey and therefore honeypots.
- mseebach 17y agoTor is about concealing endpoints, not data. The Tor network is very explicitly and very visibly untrusted. If your data is encrypted, a node can forward your stuff or not. That's it. Of course, this doesn't help you when the police knocks down your door because you merely connected, even though Tor encourages you to run your machine as a proxy itself to get deniability -- and I even recall hearing about a Tor "virus" that provides deniability of even running the program. All very well if you're in a country with rule of law, not so much if the local party-officer says you're going down for Googling Tianamen Square.
- garply 17y agoIf you're promoting very risky material through tor you might want to be this cautious, but the 60th year anniversary (which is why tor was blocked in the first place) has already passed. For the near future, I would expect the government to decrease its surveillance and filtering efforts, not increase them.
- illet 17y agoThe same government might even write an encryption program and then claim it is open source and somewhat undetectable and call it RealCrypt or HonestCrypt or TrueCrypt and dupe everyone into using it. Please name one developer behind this Super, Real, Free, Genuine, Awesome encryption software that everyone is using now. Save yourself the trouble; you can't name one because the developers of RealCrypt are anonymous.
- mynameishere 17y agoWhy does it matter who the developers are? The source is available. Build it and compare it with the binaries. http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2 http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2