The New Yorker just helped out for some positive PR surrounding hidden services. Last Monday, they implemented "strongbox." It's a means of sending the New Yorker tips and information without fear of reprisal, since not even the New Yorker can know who someone is as a result of IP address logs. The fundamental tech driving that at the core is Tor's hidden services.
Sorry to resurrect an old discussion. But, this thread came to mind as I was reading about Strongbox this week. With a main stream publication like the New Yorker using Tor's hidden services in order to result in public good, this is a very good piece of PR for Tor that should be emphasized. Here are some links. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/introducing-strongbox-anonymous-document-sharing-tool.html http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ http://deaddrop.github.io/ http://mashable.com/2013/05/15/new-yorker-strongbox/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/15/opening-the-lid-on-strongbox-the-new-yorker-anonymous-dropbox-coded-by-aaron-swartz/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Cc: Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor's reputation problem with pedo, some easy steps the community could take On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:32:59PM -0400, Chris Patti wrote: > As a newcomer to Tor, as I explored the various onions out there, I felt as > if practically everywhere I turned there were links taking me to pedo > sites, IRC channels etc. Hi Chris, I agree with you. Part of what we have done a poor job communicating is that hidden services are a tiny fraction of overall Tor use. The wikipedia article on Tor is mostly written by hidden service enthusiasts (as far as I can tell), which further misleads people. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
