In short, they claim that:
- The "PCAP" data, email addresses, etc that they sell comes from them running malware samples on their own infrastructure. It's not based on captured Internet data.
- The web page addresses etc that they sell are the results of automated vulnerability scans and honeypots, not captured Internet data.
- The netflow data they sell is captured from real ISP traffic, but it is a small sample (only 1 in 10,000 netflows is captured), and it can't identify individual websites if they use a CDN or shared hosting infrastructure (which most websites do).
I have no clue how true these claims are, but those are the claims.
Looks like he was going to get fired anyway.
The Motherboard piece mentioned is: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-ma...
It isn't, in and of itself a reason for suspicion on the level implied, nor would I argue above and beyond baseline healthy suspicion in anything.
That doesn't matter at all. Tor is not proposing to accomplish the same thing the internet does. If we are to take Tor at its word, it is proposing the exact opposite of what is in the interest of government and law enforcement.
But seriously, the exit node issue is a real sore thumb.
That it's hard to get enough volunteer capacity, that exit node operators can sometimes get in trouble for things users did, that attackers can run exit nodes in order to look at traffic content, that attackers can run undisclosed families of relays in order to perform some traffic correlation attacks when a circuit uses multiple relays controlled by the same party, or that some sites may block or CAPTCHA exit nodes?
The internet isn't one piece of software you knowingly install on your system. The internet isn't promising anonymity. Likewise to Tor, I wouldn't install a radar scanner in my car if I knew the company was owned by the U.S. Marshal Service given the kind of incentives that exist for them to take advantage.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-ma...
Didn't google deprecate/stop prioritizing AMP? so why are they still using it?
Is it because Its an opportunity to track users so use it as longer as possible?
The current TOR Board scenario is akin to having a known child-abusing relative babysit your own kid, catching them inexplicably sitting with the kid alone in a darkened room in a state of undress, then saying:
"Well, this is strange.. but we can't prove you were planning anything malicious this time around. As you were, mate!"
Sometimes a harsh response is warranted to preserve integrity of that which is important. This is one of those times.
My confidence in TOR was already kind of low, now how can I trust and be assured the lack of firm response isn't due to integrity already being compromised and no longer the main priority?
The public trust in TOR is EVERYTHING the project has*.
* had
Ask yourself how the hyperbole you engage in leads to "curious conversation", how you're "assuming good faith", and how you're "eschewing flamebait". Because TFA seems to invoke curious conversation and good faith and your hyperbolic analogies just seem like ideological-battle oriented flamebait.
> Sometimes a harsh response is warranted to preserve integrity of that which is important. This is one of those times.
I'm pretty sure this is explicitly against "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
P.S. As a long time HN reader/user, these hyperbolic flamebait comments in the service of political ends are exactly the kinds of comments that I find degrade this site the most. When people complain about this site turning into Reddit, it's these kinds of comments I think about.
Your claim that they've violated HN guidelines is misplaced, at best.
Who's side are you on? Are you defending the guy with conflicting interests who is on the board and simultaneously selling a tor removal kit?
I agree.
You know, the same thing they did to Assange. I wonder how that's going. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/assa-j28.html
>Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity
Oh yeah.
But hey, we might have destroyed one of the crown jewels of free software because the CIA played SJWs like a fiddle but at least we're good people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hh1YhDfbA
Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned.
