[tor-talk] New Tool Keeps Censors in the Dark - mentions Tor.

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 8/5/2011 4:42 PM, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- On Fri, 8/5/11, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org<bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org>  wrote:
>
>>>>>>>    http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38207/?p1=A1
>>>>>> It's worth reading the paper:
> I think that simply getting high profile sites to run to r
> nodes would be more likely and less invasive to the internet
> as a whole.  If google were to simply run a bunch of
> bridges, or even known tor entry nodes, that would likely
> be more reliable and be less pie in the sky.
>
> If you compare the advocacy it would take to get enough
> ISPs to implement this scheme versus the advocacy to get
> a few high profile (can't live without them) sites to run
> tor nodes, I suspect the latter would be much easier.
>
> -Martin
You lost me at "If google were to..."  Google & privacy is the 
definition of an oxymoron.  They're way down the list of organizations 
many users would want having any role in some anonymity endeavor.