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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: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday July 20 2016, @05:24PM

    by Capt. Obvious (6089) on Wednesday July 20 2016, @05:24PM (#377368)

    TLAs aren't the real threats. They have real jobs to do - espionage and counterespionage. While there may be some personal snooping, they aren't incentivized to do anything with the data they have on me.

    Private companies (FB, Google, etc.) have a huge profit motive to track me, and use that data in any way that can make a buck. They probably have more web-facing resources than most country's TLAs. They are the scary mofos.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @08:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @08:32PM (#377515)

    TLAs aren't the real threats. They have real jobs to do - espionage and counterespionage.

    Sure, sure, they only threaten democracy itself [gnu.org], but they're not real threats. As long as you aren't a whistleblower, an activist, a politician challenging the status quo, a lawyer, or just generally someone who is trying to change society, you have nothing to fear! It's not like the government has tried to destroy activists before. [eff.org]

    Not real threats? Are you kidding me!? Or do you only care about yourself?

    • (Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Thursday July 21 2016, @07:13AM

      by Capt. Obvious (6089) on Thursday July 21 2016, @07:13AM (#377794)

      The GNU page applies as much, perhaps moreso, to corporations (Google/FB/etc.) than to TLAs.

      Yes, the TLAs failed to convince Dr. King to give up by sending a letter! It had blackmail! Compare that to FB's (intentional or not) skewing the news to a more liberal slant for all of its 1 Billion subscribers; each of whom has a vote and an amazing number of which put faith in the information they gather on FB. Imagine if FB had demoted any post that contained the word Trump in their algorithm. Do you think people would even notice (after all, FB doesn't show everyone every post). Do you think Trump would be the Republican nominee?

      I mean, these corporations have a lot of power. Whether you think the TSAs are well regulated or not, corporations have more freedom than that.