Hacker strikes through student's router
poncenby smythe
smythe at poncenby.plus.com
Wed Nov 9 21:30:25 UTC 2005
>
> [sarcasm begins]
>
> What do you think? As you probably know, before we started working on
> Tor, there was almost no such thing as computer crime or abuse.
> Everybody could be easily tracked down by their IP addresses, so
> anybody who tried to get away with naughtiness had to deal with their
> ISP and their local police almost immediately.
>
> There was practically no fraud, no defacement, no flooding, no abuse,
> no illicit access, no data theft, no harassment, no fraud, no nothing.
>
> [sarcasm ends]
>
so glad you tagged your sarcasm, I don't think I would have picked up
on it :(
> I don't think these are "impossible questions"; I think they're
> answerable with a little thought, a little history, and a little
> technical knowledge.
>
As to knowing what the likely disruption to people would be if Tor
didn't exist, I am not sure just thinking about it could answer this
question, which is probably why I alluded to the question's
impossibility.
as to history and technical knowledge, I am aware of freely available
anonymous proxy lists that people can bounce through, or even their
own compromised network of machines, however I guess I meant the ease
of which a Tor client is installed and ready to use - it is the
beauty of Tor that with such ease comes an extremely powerful method
of hiding. An average user of computers will have no problem using
Tor, however they might have a harder task tracking down open proxies
and/or compromised hosts. This is what I meant by causing disruption.
thanks for being condescending though, really helpful and encouraging.
poncenby
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