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

[Matt Joyce]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-shudders-at-large-block-of-uninterrupted-te,16932/

Also, nothing illegal about darknets.

ChaosVPN has the tinc developers involved and has custom code written by
participants.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Ryan Castellucci <
ryan.castellucci at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
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