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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 19 2016, @11:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the pushed-or-jumped? dept.

"[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


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @01:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @01:33AM (#376952)

    Correct.
    And so would all the new board members which include:

    Matt Blaze - no introduction necessary
    Cindy Cohn - Director of the EFF
    Gabriella Coleman - Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.
    Linus Nordberg - longtime internet and privacy activist who has been involved with Tor since 2009.
    Megan Price - Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group,
    Bruce Schneier - no introduction necessary
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    At least 3 of those are big names. Tor has plenty of legitimacy with them on board.
    So I don't buy the conspiracy theorizations. The less well grounded will flip the script and say that now all of their names are tarnished.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @01:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @01:33PM (#377203)

    Unless all those respectable people were replaced with clones specifically designed for this purpose.

    Analyzing it a bit more, I think every important person and all those who show intelligence and might be important in the future have a clone in government facilities waiting to be deployed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @07:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @07:45PM (#377481)

      How many of those people are East Coasters, specifically the Ma/Ny urban area ones. There are probably lots of ways they could be pressured, as far as grants, scrutiny of finances, etc goes. The exception being that FSF director who moved the FSF HQ to Seattle... maybe so it would be closer to Microsoft?