Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 24, 2006 05:24 PM
I want to give a more detailed critique of the article as most of the others:
Tor users worry that providers are in a position of power, and power corrupts. The logic employed -- that if a provider knows who is using its services it will use that information for nefarious purposes -- is no more sensible than assuming that someone who is using a privacy service like Tor is necessarily doing so to facilitate trouble-making.
Do you know the company of AT&T and the lawsuit issued by the EFF against them? It's about wiretapping and abuse of power, going even as far as making personal data of their customers their property. So, it's not privacy vs. security, but privacy for security.
it is not privacy versus security, it is privacy versus freedom. When one person's privacy restricts someone else's freedom, we have a problem.
You are mixing things up: Privacy itself is a freedom, so you say: "when one freedom restricts someone else's freedom, we have a problem." That is correct, just as we have mechanisms to balance these freedoms. As some other readers have mentioned, you can make people register before talking or writing, so they can decide whether to give up their anonymity and switching to pseudonymity, if they want to contribute.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 24, 2006 05:24 PMTor users worry that providers are in a position of power, and power corrupts. The logic employed -- that if a provider knows who is using its services it will use that information for nefarious purposes -- is no more sensible than assuming that someone who is using a privacy service like Tor is necessarily doing so to facilitate trouble-making.
Do you know the company of AT&T and the lawsuit issued by the EFF against them? It's about wiretapping and abuse of power, going even as far as making personal data of their customers their property. So, it's not privacy vs. security, but privacy for security.
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#0047<nobr>5<wbr></nobr> 0>
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/21/att_retrofit<nobr>s<wbr></nobr> _privac.html>
it is not privacy versus security, it is privacy versus freedom. When one person's privacy restricts someone else's freedom, we have a problem.
You are mixing things up: Privacy itself is a freedom, so you say: "when one freedom restricts someone else's freedom, we have a problem." That is correct, just as we have mechanisms to balance these freedoms. As some other readers have mentioned, you can make people register before talking or writing, so they can decide whether to give up their anonymity and switching to pseudonymity, if they want to contribute.
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