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

Meredith L. Patterson mlp at thesmartpolitenerd.com
Tue Sep 28 06:50:47 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:04:15AM -0500, Thomas Stowe wrote:
> Can't TOR developers find users causing problems

No. They can't. See http://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html.en#TracingUsers

> or possibly a law enforcement exit-node honeypot set up to be used to catch
> users causing problems? 

LEOs can already set up their own exit nodes. I have no idea whether any law enforcement agencies are actually doing so.

> are we wrong to hold the TOR network suspect because we don't
> understand or haven't looked at the source code? I believe your statement
> regarding that there is no backdoor but I still won't take your word for it
> and I honestly don't have the time to look over the code

Then yes, you are wrong, because you are spreading FUD about software that you are *too fucking lazy* to audit. 

--mlp



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