Re: Tor

[Katipo <katipo@westnet.com.au>]

Jiann-Ming Su wrote:

> According to the Tor overview, the government and military are already
> using Tor:
>
> "A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence
> gathering,

They're the ones who actually started it off originally, but it's now 
been taken over.
Which is why I asked about the new heads of operation.

> and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle
> East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling
> web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs,
> and for security during sting operations."

...and still do.

I've no objection to an open network, I actually promote the concept.
All I'm concerned with is the privacy/integrity factor.
Regards,