Tor is for privacy, not crime

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject	Tor is for privacy, not crime
Newsgroups	comp.misc
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Date	2017-08-01 01:44 +0000

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From the «sounds good to me» department:
Title: Dark Web Doesn't Exist, Says Tor's Dingledine. and Folks use Network for Privacy, not Crime
Author: martyb
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 03:52:00 -0400
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/30/0253252&from=rss

Phoenix666[1] writes:

A Tor Project grandee sought to correct some misconceptions about the
anonymizing network during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention
in Las Vegas on Friday.

Roger Dingledine, one of the three founders of the Tor Project, castigated
journos for mischaracterizing the pro-privacy system as a bolthole
exclusively used by drug dealers and pedophiles to hide from the authorities.

In fact, he said, only three per cent of Tor users connect to hidden services[2]
, suggesting the vast majority of folks on the network are using it to
anonymously browse public websites for completely legit purposes. In other
words, netizens – from journalists to activists to normal peeps – use Tor to
mask their identities from website owners, and it's not just underworld
villains.

Dingledine even went as far as saying the dark web – a landscape of websites
concealed within networks like Tor – is so insignificant, it can be
discounted.

Only 3%, but what a 3% it is, eh?
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Read more of this story[4] at SoylentNews.

Links:
[1]: http://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/ (link)
[2]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/29/tor_dark_web/ (link)
[3]: http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21495 (link)
[4]: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/30/0253252&from=rss (link)

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Tor is for privacy, not crime RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-08-01 01:44 +0000
  Re: Tor is for privacy, not crime mausg@mail.com - 2017-08-10 08:14 +0000
    Re: Tor is for privacy, not crime Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-08-10 09:25 +0000
  Re: Tor is for privacy, not crime "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2017-08-10 11:27 +0200

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