Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?

2017-09-07 Thread Scott MacLeod
need to > convince some banks and politicians to offer a societally > reasonable alternative to BTC by adopting this. You are > speaking as if these were unsurmountable hurdles and > politicians weren't human beings. :) > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:23:19AM -0700, Scott MacLeod wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?

2017-09-05 Thread Scott MacLeod
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Re: [tor-talk] Tor and solidarity against online harassment

2014-12-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
Nothing to hide > ---- > > Tor is a honey-pot: Tor use is BAD Tor use is No worse than not > using Tor > > Tor isn't honey-pot:Tor use is GOOD Tor use is GOOD > > Of course this doesn't

Re: [tor-talk] Scaling Tor

2014-08-18 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi All, In thinking about scaling Tor, what plans do you have for all 7,106 + languages in the world? MIT OCW-centric, CC World University and School is planning to be in all of these languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - as well as in all 242 countries - http://worldunive

Re: [tor-talk] Will Tor affect Internet Explorer? (newbie question)

2013-07-16 Thread Scott MacLeod
If I've moved away from IE to Tor Browser Bundle on my Mac desktop with a relatively new Mac Operating System 10.6, - and don't plan to use Orbot and Orweb on my handheld, because while I can log into my non-mainstream, specific email website, I get a white screen after that, and also don't plan to

Re: [tor-talk] Will Tor affect Internet Explorer? (newbie question)

2013-07-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
While someone using IE reading this thread might want to switch to Tor Browser Bundle, and do so, I have a related, newby question: once having switched to Tor Browser Bundle, and, if one also wants to make browsing on one's smartphone secure with Tor, how does one do this? I've downloaded, for ex

Re: [tor-talk] Will Tor affect Internet Explorer? (newbie question)

2013-07-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
How does Tor/Vidalia handle the issue of one's computer recording one's own key strokes unbeknownst to the end user, in IE, in comparison with the somewhat new Tor Browser, or the issue of software that can take over one's computer, such as the Dell computer help desk software was able to do to hel

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-19 Thread Scott MacLeod
In all the multiplicity of good ideas here, here's a "A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts" from the Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/tutorial-how-create-anonymous-email-accounts and two, related, wiki subject pages at World University and School, which is

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using Tornetwork

2012-01-06 Thread Scott MacLeod
Dear Roger et al., My Mozilla Firefox browser (most recent version) slows down after about 15 minutes, so that it becomes inoperable. Could this be happening as a way to prevent someone using TOR/Vidalia? Thanks, Scott On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM, wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:19