A Tor Project grandee sought to correct some misconceptions about the anonymizing network during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas on Friday.
Roger Dingledine, one of the three founders of the Tor Project, castigated journos for mischaracterizing the pro-privacy system as a bolthole exclusively used by drug dealers and pedophiles to hide from the authorities.
In fact, he said, only three per cent of Tor users connect to hidden services, suggesting the vast majority of folks on the network are using it to anonymously browse public websites for completely legit purposes. In other words, netizens – from journalists to activists to normal peeps – use Tor to mask their identities from website owners, and it's not just underworld villains.
Dingledine even went as far as saying the dark web – a landscape of websites concealed within networks like Tor – is so insignificant, it can be discounted.
Only 3%, but what a 3% it is, eh?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 31 2017, @09:04AM (3 children)
Not funny, but wrong. I learned in boot camp, and again when I became an EMT that the groin area is only 1% of the body. Let me find the "Rule of Nines" for burn victims for you . . .
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/burn_percentage_in_adults_rule_of_nines/article_em.htm [emedicinehealth.com]
What's more, people who brag the most about how big their dicks are, are most likely to be "inadequate". So, we can assume that you are actually working with something like 0.25%.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Monday July 31 2017, @03:15PM (1 child)
Yeah but that's for surface area. What about by volume?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 31 2017, @06:03PM
Probably multiply by pi then divide by zero? Or, just ask your significant other. ;^)
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 31 2017, @08:04PM
But not Trojan Magnum XLs.
I am often complemented for my well-formed William Jefferson Clinton.
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