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

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 09/27/2010 10:31 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> I am sure you are right that TOR has been compromised.  I would suggest
> taking a look at the source http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en.  You
> can download it there and then confirm or deny this.  It should be fairly
> trivial for you to do this.  A lot of other projects are open source as well
> that you can use for encryption on top of tor (a vpn service over tor for
> example if you are super paranoid)  

Yes, feel free to audit Tor - we'd love to hear about any bugs or issues
that you've found.

>
> Other than that you are right, you
> should NEVER do something that you wouldn't do in the open over tor or any
> other service.  It is just douchy and well wrong.

What? He's basically incorrect in everything that he's said - he knows
basically nothing on the topic, offers no evidence, makes tons of bogus
assertions, and then encourages people to stop helping. WTF?

There are lots of reasons to use Tor:
https://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en

All the best,
Jake