Tor network speed

[Matej Kovacic]

Hi,

> Is this 'normal'?  Is this the pay-off for privacy?  It almost seems
> like too much to pay for the benefit, unless using AIM clients where
> speed isn't necessarily needed!

I tested Tor on Windows and it looks OK, but... it would be great if Tor 
won't be in DOS window, but in a system tray and run as a process.

And also.. what if Tor will be combined with firewall. For me, one of 
the best firewalls on Windows is Personal Tiny Firewall (I am using very 
old free version).
PTF computes fingerprint for each application which uses internet 
connection. For instance: if you have Mozilla, PTF checks whether 
fingerprint (MD5 checksum) of firefox.exe is as it should be. If it is 
not (someone replaced "trusted" exe with trojan or if Firefox has been 
upgraded), user is prompted about that.

Now... what if Tor will have similar functionality, but user will be 
able to decide for every application if it uses Tor connection or not.

So.. your BitTorrent client will not use it, AIM will use it, etc. Not 
just on / off, but selectively on/off for each application (and when 
there will be new application, Tor will ask you what to do).


I do not support piracy, because piracy is also bad for open source and 
free software. But MPAA and RIAA actions could be used for increasing 
awareness of software like Tor.

Look at the moment to P2P software. You can use it for download, but you 
also have to upload something (you can disable this, but default setting 
is like that). It is inconvenient to just download and nothing upload 
(for example BitTorrent: when you finish, almost in a second someone 
starts downloading from you). If P2P clients will be designed only for 
downloading, they won't be successible. So this philosophy that if you 
want to download, you must also upload sometnihg, forced people to act 
"sympathetically" and not just egoistically.

This philosophy could be used also here. If you want to protect your 
privacy, let's protect privacy of others too. And this philosophy could 
be promoted as a response to antipiracy and especially censorship 
actions. If every P2P "leecher" will install Tor server, internet 
surveillance won't be possible on a great scale anymore.

And as seen in a KaZaA example, people are willing to install even 
spyware to get the benefits of P2P.

bye, Matej

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