Hey folks!
Something to read from Kaspersky Labs:
https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8187/Tor_hidden_services_a_safe_haven_for...
Interesting is, that Eugene Kaspersky hisself states in an interview:
"We cooperate not only with the FSB, but also with the Americans and Brazilians, and with a variety of European agencies on security issues or cybercriminals. We sit a group of experts who break the code better than anyone in the world - perhaps only after the FBI. They understand, disassembles, analyze codes and understand what it is the best in the world. People come to us, "Guys, what is it?" - And we respond. We are not able to engage in all sorts of detective work, it's not our job, but we give them the information on which they continue to catch criminals. Or, conversely, we can see some information that may seem interesting to them, and we give them. Sometimes, in Germany looking for stolen laptops, we gave IPs"
You can use Google translate to read the whole Russian interview in your language: http://lenta.ru/articles/2013/10/01/kaspersky
Facing the overwhelming bulk surveillance I encourage everyone to start more relays/bridges!
==> Are there public statistics about the fraction of illegal content in/from Tor? Is it significantly more than in the "normal"net? We need some counter-arguments.
Our "adversaries" will continue putting us in the criminal/terrorist/child-abuse category. But distributed P2P anonymizers like Tor, I2P, GNUnet, Bitmessage etc. are the only technology that helps against mass surveillance.
Best regards
Anton