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Whenever I read "in my new book", I realize I've been tricked into reading advertising.

• Zigurd 12y ago
  It's not a very good self-recoomendation, either, if it is full of more stuff like this: " Anonymous browsers like Tor, which allow you to browse the internet without giving away your location, are growing in popularity, with 2.5 million daily users at the last count. These are also used to access the 'hidden services' - an encrypted network of sites using a non-standard internet protocol which makes it close to impossible for their users to be tracked."
  • eterm 12y ago
    What is your objection to that? Isn't that a pretty good description of Tor? If you're trying to say that tor doesn't replace the IP in TCP/IP, well that's true, but I think the author used internet protocol in the wider sense of the meaning.
    • Zigurd 12y ago
      There are at least two large errors: First, Tor isn't a browser. The Tor project provides Tor packaged with a browser, but the Tor project is more than that, while the Tor onion router is something completely different from a browser. Second, "non-standard" is a terribly misleading way to describe Tor. That's in the "not even wrong" category of being off the mark. Anyone not familiar with Tor reading that will be worse off than uninformed.
• sosuke 12y ago
  I agree and at the same time believe it might not always be the case. Supposing I've become an expert on flying model airplanes, I've blogged, spoken, done demos, it is my biggest hobby. I end up writing a book, of course I might reference it in the future, but I would never consider it advertising. Just a continuation of my fun and what I've ended up being able to also have an income off of. I don't think I'd feel tricked in that case. I go to this persons site for their material, they talk about their book too.