[Noisebridge-discuss] Anti-piracy / anti-Pirate Bay law currently in Congress

[Ryan Castellucci]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Thomas Stowe <stowe.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a bit of an educated guess that I agree with that Tor is
> compromised. The Navy was doing stuff with it and then there were some
> documents leaked to wikileaks because of an exit-point exploit and I'd
> hazard to guess that anyone after that would've used the power of authority
> to cause the EFF and others to put backdoors in their privacy software and
> also full access to source. There are a few softwares like JAP (Jondonym)
> that have been required to put a backdoor in that can be activated with a
> warrant. Given the FBI's history of illegal wiretaps and overzealous
> behavior of companies hired to track down piracy sites and large groups of
> pirates I'd hazard to guess that Tor, VyprVPN, HideMyAss and everything else
> is compromised. This guess gives me enough pause that I'd suggest that you
> don't do anything stupid that you're afraid to get caught doing, ever. If
> you can find a fool-proof anonymity plan, it's going to be illegal. Almost
> all ways to get high speed Internet access anonymously are illegal and if
> you do something via Tor, they're essentially going to go after the
> exit-point's owner which is another Tor user offering anonymity services so
> not only are you doing something stupid but you're putting the blame on
> someone else for what you did. There've been cases of Child Porn
> investigations and raids on innocent people because they were running Tor
> servers who almost faced jail time and spent thousands of dollars defending
> themselves in court and by that time they'd been in jail and on television
> for being a sex offender interested in child porn. Don't be a douchebag, use
> your own IP, whether you were issued it by your ISP or you buy it. If you
> government or ISP blocks torrents, use a service that condones torrent usage
> and don't "chance" screwing someone else's life up. Torrent "Seedboxes" can
> still be purchased that will enable you to get all of your torrents faster,
> anyhow. If you're too poor to pay for a seedbox or anonymity service, save
> your money. If not, you're pretty much a scared human being who I have 0
> respect for and if others understand exactly what you're doing to Tor users,
> they will see you as a scared little person who doesn't care if they screw
> others lives up. I hope that you folks take this into consideration. I know
> about these technologies because I've used them in the past. I don't condone
> piracy but if you're going to do it, don't give the EFF a bad name and that
> goes doubly so to the people kind enough to offer their computers, time and
> bandwidth to tor. Think back to the lady talking about the courts'
> understanding of technologies and the Internet. Is a judge going to
> understand that it was one of the people you offer anonymity services to?
> I'd suggest that those of you who care about your future shut down tor exit
> nodes that you run, but only because there's shitty people out there who
> don't care if you go to jail because of their actions.

Ye gods, have ye not heard of line breaks?

Services can be run internally within tor that don't have the exit
point weakness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion

-- 
Ryan Castellucci http://ryanc.org/