On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:20:05 +0000 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > > > Tor provides privacy and more likely lowers security so which threat > > against contributors or contributor actions is the Tor policy aimed to > > protect? > > I'm confused, what? How does Tor lower security and at the same time, > it provides privacy?
Just like antivirus scanners bring greater exploitability especially if you are not vulnerable to detectable viruses then so does Tor. It adds a lot of complexity for privacy benefit. Integrity is often muddled into security too. As far as I am concerned they can actually counter each other and are seperate entities. Security is an application specific process to be understood in light of a particular threat model. So Tor for certain things yes but not for everything. Obscuring from targetted attack is highly questionable to me when a secure VPN from a lightly used machine (no web browsing) can offer real security. You may just be giving a way in otherwise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
