[TWN team] Help desk roundup

Matt Pagan matt at pagan.io
Tue Jun 24 21:32:01 UTC 2014



Lunar:
> Matt Pagan:
>> Lunar:
>>> So your paragraph read:
>>>
>>>     The help desk has gotten asked about the "ethics behind Tor". 
>>
>>        [snip]
>>
>>>     Videos like Roger's talk at Internet Days [XXX] or
>>>     Jake and Roger's talks at the Chaos Communications Congress in
>>>     2011 [XXX] and 2013 [XXX] remain good resources on the  social and
>>>     cultural motivations for Tor.
>>>
>>
>> How's that?
>>
>> The quotes are because I was directly quoting the user's question.
> 
> The initial question was “What are the ethics behind Tor?” Weird, but
> that's life I guess.
> 

Yup. Weird, hence interesting.

>> By mentioning the design docs, I was trying to cover all bases just in
>> case I misunderstood the question. But you're right, the word ethics
>> doesn't usually have a technical connotation if the word is being used
>> in it's normal sense.
> 
> Ok. Then I guess “remain” might not be the best verb, because this is
> all that is offered to the reader at this point.
> 
> 

I think it could still work because Roger's Internet days talk is kind
of old and 28C3 was some time ago now. Even though they are a little
old, they remain good resources.

Maybe saying "are still good resources" also works though? Or "are good
resources"?



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