| Title | Tor Veteran Lucky Green Exits and Withdraws Critical 'Tonga' Node and Relays | |
| Date | Tuesday July 19 2016, @11:12PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| 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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