Hi Roger,
On 5 Feb 2020, at 17:52, Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org wrote:
I'm meeting with a group of systems professors this week to discuss security at the network layer -- for example, how can backbone routers help make the internet a safer place. I expect many of the professors will talk about routing security, or scalability, or other "systems"-y things -- maybe even including how we need accountability and tracking in order to stop DDoS attacks.
I've written up the pitch for three angles that I think are important and might otherwise be absent from the agenda:
(1) securing communications metadata (2) preventing browser (application level) tracking (3) resisting blocking (censorship)
I've posted the document at https://freehaven.net/~arma/isat2020.pdf and I'm attaching the files here too for posterity.
It's two pages -- one page for explaining the problems, one page for "how can we do better?"
Feel free to reuse the text for your purposes, like grant proposals, or explaining Tor to people, or whatever else it's useful for.
Thanks for sending out this write-up, it looks like a good summary.
the reality is that network censorship is becoming commonplace in ‘Western’ countries like England, Australia, and Sweden.
In the early 2010s, the rise of internet censorship in Australia made me get involved in tor development.
Back then, I couldn't see a political solution happening any time soon. Unfortunately, the political situation is worse now. But there are some encouraging signs.
T