[tor-project] Launching Ethics Guidelines

[Alison]

isis:
> Virgil Griffith transcribed 2.7K bytes:
>> Here's the line about unacceptability of crawling .onion:
>>
>> "For example, it is not acceptable to run an HSDir, harvest onion
>> addresses, and do a Web crawl of those onion services."
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeeting/ResearchEthicsNotes
>>
>> So, this can indeed be an official policy.  But it was the first I had
>> heard of it.  And currently at least 3-4 tor2web nodes in
>> good-standing explicitly permit crawling of .onion .
> 
> Perhaps, more explicitly, what we'd like to eliminate is people like you,
> Virgil.  You've admitted publicly, in person, to several of our developers
> that you harvested HSDir data and then further attempted (unsuccessfully) to
> sell said data on users to INTERPOL and the Singaporean government.
> 
> We do not tolerate people within our community cooperating with any parties,
> including law enforcement and government agencies, to deanonymise real world
> users of the Tor network.  Full stop.
> 
> Your previous behaviours were absolutely abhorent, unethical, unacceptable,
> and cowardly.  They are now covered by the official ethical guidelines.
> Tor2web similarly should be killed with fire as being a blatant and disgusting
> workaround to the trust and expectations which onion service operators place
> in the network.
> 
> Have a nice day.

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