[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

harmony harmony01 at riseup.net
Mon Oct 7 13:01:53 UTC 2013


Lunar:
>> +Tor and the Silk Road takedown
>> +------------------------------
>> +
>> +On 2nd October, Ross Ulbricht a.k.a Dread Pirate Roberts got arrested and
>> +his hidden service site Silk Road was taken down [XXX].
> 
> I'm not sure about this one. There has been a blog post about it… Sure,
> Silk Road appeared several times in mainstream medias but do we want to
> cover every time an hidden service operator gets arrested?
> 
> We are having a pretty dense issue already. That's also why I'm asking.
> 
>> +If you really want Tor to work, stick to these basic rules [XXX].
> 
> I really like to avoid statements with an “I told you so” tone.
> Something like “It might be a good time to read again tips to make
> Tor ‘really work’.”
> 
> Also the link is the best we have, but according to the criminal
> complaints, I doesn't appear that Ulbricht was found because he did not
> follow these recommandations…

I'm personally against including this for the same reason I was against
too much coverage of the Freedom Hosting takedown - like you say, 'do we
want to cover every time a hidden service operator gets arrested?' I
don't think that the Tor Project has any more to do with individual
hidden services than the Apache Foundation does.

arma did put out an official blog post on the matter, so you could
possibly approach it from that angle. On the other hand, I get the sense
that the posts the team put out in these situations are largely a
response to being besieged by journalists asking for comment.

Also the first quoted statement is problematic without the addition of
the word 'allegedly'.

cheers,
h


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