[tor-talk] Hi!

Naz Gassiep naz at gassiep.com
Tue Apr 7 08:19:01 UTC 2015


On 7/04/2015 5:26 AM, gary02121993 at openmailbox.org wrote:
> I'm suppose to write about ethical, social, legal and professional
> issues raised by my topic - which is Tor - based off of UK legislation
> and standards in Information Systems.

Well, how about you say something a little less loaded than "the 
malicious uses for Tor are ...".

Say something like "Tor is a tool, and like all tools it can be used 
with good and bad intentions. Some examples of good uses are a, b, and 
c, while examples of malicious uses are d, e, and f." Then you have a 
wide range of very interesting discussions that can be engaged in, such 
as exploring methods that society can use to determine the merit of 
encouraging or discouraging things that result in both good and bad 
outcomes. Where are the thresholds? What metrics would you use to 
determine "goodness" and "badness"? Why does Naz not have a bowl ice 
cream on his desk right now? You know, important issues like that.

Please note my use of the Oxford Comma, it is the most important part of 
what I said.

Regards,
- Naz.

>
> On 04/06/2015 10:46 PM, W. Greenhouse wrote:
>> gary02121993 at openmailbox.org writes:
>>
>>> I'm writing about Tor for my Ethics module. Do you guys mind if you tell
>>> me some malicious uses with Tor? Anything will be of great help. Yeah I
>>> already know of the basic or common use cases. :)
>> It does not sound like this course is being run with a great deal of
>> empiricism and impartiality if the instructor is only interested in
>> "malicious" uses of Tor.
>>



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