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"[Lucky Green, the person] responsible for very early [TOR] nodes says 'recent events' make it impossible to continue"[1]
"It will therefore be left to others to speculate about whether or not Green's decision is the result of the turmoil in the project, which emerged when Jacob Applebaum exited amid accusations and recriminations, and continued with the project's board replacing itself."
[1] Full Article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/18/lucky_green_torpedos_tors_tonga_node/[1arc] Full Article (Archived):
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/18/lucky_green_torpedos_tors_tonga_node/"Lucky Green's message[2] to the community reads as follows:"
"Given recent events, it is no longer appropriate for me to materially contribute to the Tor Project either financially, as I have so generously throughout the years, nor by providing computing resources. This decision does not come lightly; I probably ran one of the first five nodes in the system and my involvement with Tor predates it being called "Tor" by many years.
Nonetheless, I feel that I have no reasonable choice left within the bounds of ethics, but to announce the discontinuation of all Tor-related services hosted on every system under my control. Most notably, this includes the Tor node "Tonga", the "Bridge Authority", which I recognize is rather pivotal to the network
Tonga will be permanently shut down and all associated crytographic keys destroyed on 2016-08-31. This should give the Tor developers ample time to stand up a substitute. I will terminate the chron [sic] job we set up so many years ago at that time that copies over the descriptors. In addition to Tonga, I will shut down a number of fast Tor relays, but the directory authorities should detect that shutdown quickly and no separate notice is needed here.
I wish the Tor Project nothing but the best moving forward through those difficult times."
[2] Tonga (Bridge Authority) Permanent Shutdown Notice:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19690[2arc] Tonga (Bridge Authority) Permanent Shutdown Notice (Archived):
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19690
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @12:42AM
Why are moralizing scumbags intentionally illiterate?
I wish the Tor Project nothing but the best moving forward through those difficult times."
Right there is the basis for calling the corporate weasel an asshole.
He ran a node for me? Now you want to presume that I have ever even used Tor? Where did that utterly baseless assumption come from?
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Wednesday July 20 2016, @02:06AM
Now that is a nit being picked.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @02:19AM
forum spies technique #3, topic dilution
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm [cryptome.org]
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Wednesday July 20 2016, @04:29AM
I wish I was implementing such techniques (not really) as I'd probably be getting a higher salary :P
No, I just think "moving forward" is too simple a phrase to read into that much. However, if you'd care to elaborate on why the guy is an asshole for using a phrase that is somewhat corporate speak I am willing to listen.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @04:32AM
accusation of topic dilution was directed at the original poster not at Zz9zZ
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday July 20 2016, @03:34PM
If your only evidence of assholery is the use of "corporate weasel phrases," your original question has a tautological answer: assholes always use corporate weasel phrases because use of corporate weasel phrases is the defining feature of an asshole. I say "the defining feature" because your original question makes it clear that all assholes use corporate weasel phrases, and we've established that this is enough to qualify you on its own. Thus, no other criteria is necessary.
I don't actually agree with the definitions you've made up in your silly ad hoc word game, obviously; I'm just better at using them than you are. Try to come up with a clever troll next time.