[tor-dev] Re: New idea

2025-07-17 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Hey again, just to be clear: I am not an official developer, but decided to give my thoughts anyway. If you require advanced security, look into the Vanguards project and it's detections for "abnormal" traffic / cells - it is mostly designed for hidden service operators, however clients can use

[tor-dev] Re: New idea

2025-07-17 Thread George Hartley via tor-dev
Hey, Thanks for sharing your idea. That said, there are a few big issues with your proposal: 1.) Centralization of trust: Giving a fixed group of “original volunteers” special relay status adds centralized points of trust and failure. Tor has always aimed to avoid that — no single group should