On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:32:58PM +0000, mirimir wrote: [SNIP] > > That sums it up well, I think. > > Given Tor's design, numerous parties, including many sets of bitter > enemies, can cooperate to provide common anonymity. The design is open, > so all parties can identify weaknesses and contribute improvements. > Moreover, there's a common interest in doing so. > > That's elegant and beautiful. >
Back in the ancient pre-Tor days, at the height of the crypto wars, Ian Goldberg asked me at Financial Crypto in 1998 why we created onion routing. Not entirely facetiously I told him that the fascinating technological problems and the pontential to better protect people and their activities was nice, but the real attraction was to create a context where people who were sure they should hate each other were forced to collaborate. aloha, Paul -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
