<div>Linux is very tor friendly. If you are a linux noob I suggest ubuntu. I oppose the idea of a tor police force for several reasons:</div>
<div>1. Lie detectors don´t work</div>
<div>2. It is no better than the opressive governments tor tries to circumvent</div>
<div>3. It would take too much work.</div>
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<div>I do appreciate the effort to find a solution. Perhaps there is a way that tor clients to calculate a checksum of the server files?</div>
<div>Ringo Kamens<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Total Privacy</b> <<a href="mailto:nosnoops@fastmail.fm">nosnoops@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">"Tim Warren" <<a href="mailto:tewarren@gmail.com">tewarren@gmail.com</a>> said:<br>> Maybe you could answer a question for me. Should I NOT login in to
<br>> a site, such as a bank, when using Tor? Or do I need to make sure<br>> it is https:?<br>><br>> Appreciate any clarification.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br><br>I´ll put it this way, if you are registered as your real identity
<br>on your bank (and not going to hack somebody else´s account), then<br>just log in by https directly from your machine/ISP. No need for<br>hiding by using Tor.<br><br>Then about malicious nodes. Since the Tor is be open source, it
<br>gotta be decompilable reversing ingengeering to whatever anybody<br>want with it, such as example tap out data in between itself or<br>log what in is what out to middle node and so on. If not, why not?<br><br>A soution could be to set up a private "Tor police force" and let
<br>everyone that want to be accepted as a part of the system, sign<br>a legally deal to let this international Tor police force (how<br>about the name TPF or ITPF or TIPF) at any moment without warning<br>run in to every Tor computer node/router room and get full access
<br>to everything in it. Of course the members of such "police force"<br>should be hand picked by comprehensive test (lying detectors and<br>lot of advanced stuff) to be legitimated. Every aproved Tor node<br>runner should then be very happy to be granted vit such visit of
<br>the Tor International Police Force, because if they not find a<br>compromised, modified, malicious Tor software, You´r clean!<br><br>BTW, now I´ve also received a maybe fishing from "Hokata Japan Ltd"<br>about some business and money transactions. Funny or not, the IP
<br>was from Italy!<br><br>At last, I´m considerating to switch from Windows to Unix (Linux)<br>and hope it is user friendly with Tor. Anybody knows about it?<br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.fastmail.fm">http://www.fastmail.fm
</a> - Does exactly what it says on the tin<br><br></blockquote></div><br>