@hannes/jomis.net: On Tor and privacy

Yay! shoot the messenger.

If you want to punish tor for its possibilities (delivering subversive or criminal content) you should also outlaw anything resembling privacy of correspondence or to take the analogy further: outlaw all postal services as they could also be used for delivering illegal content.

The current takedown was let by claims of child pornography which is the equivalent of a silver bullet nowadays. What disturbs me even more is that the police action is target in the wrong direction. The powers that be should find and punish the producers of that shite. Attacking delivery systems hasn’t worked in the real world (see postal systems) and won’t work in the electronic world either. It will only harm essential systems (as tor, which development was partly funded by the US navy by the way).

Social responsibility lies in attacking the root, not in sacrificing personal safety for the society’s (or police’s) inability to find and solve the root of that problem. I understand that giving up ones responsibilities and transferring them to the state would make one’s life a little bit easier, but further down that road lies insanity.
That a AN.ON server was also taken down is quite amusing as this ‘anonymity service’ is back doored to allow govermental inqueries.

I didn’t wrote this as comment as new blog entry with trace back to hannes’ blog entry. Through that it will be syndicated at wizards-of-source.net (and I forgot my login for Hannes site which prevents anonymous comments).

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