NYT magazine feature on Tor

Good heavens! A New York Times magazine feature on Tor, the "onion routing system" that enables users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. What took 'em so long, and why now? Ah, of course: WikiLeaks is based on Tor.

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Ernunnos

God, journalistic standards have gone downhill. You only interview the founder of the product about what it does or how it works? No wonder they found it confusing. Jacob Appelbaum is not going to say, “Look, Virginia, basically what we’ve created here is an electronic money laundering system, except replace ‘money’ with ‘child porn’.”
- Anonymous
  
  Appelbaum is not the founder of the project, and the article did not claim he was. You are the one conflating the facts (as well as oversimplifying to suit your own agenda), not the NYT journalist.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
Anonymous

Great! Here come the noobs. As if Tor wasn’t slow enough already.
Inanna Kadesha

I saw no mention in the NYT article about how passwords and secret cables from embassies were divulged by someone running a TOR exit node and copying everything that went out. What a puff piece.
Search for “TOR exit node sniffing”.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/sensitive-government-e-mails-leak-through-tor-exit-nodes/503
T Nielsen Hayden

I was charmed to hear that the UN is now proposing to regulate the Internet. I figure that means anything that goes wrong on it is now their fault, and they have to fix it.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/242051,un-mulls-internet-regulation-options.aspx
- TEKNA2007
  
  the UN is now proposing to regulate the Internet
  
  We’ve entered the part of the Earth’s orbit where bad news falls from the sky like threads on Pern.
Anonymous

And eef you do not stop violating ze regulations, ah weel taunt you again!
Xenu

Interesting how Tor has become so well known in recent years, but Freenet has started to gather dust.
EH

So the NYTimes continues their corruption by only reporting the ancillary stories about Wikipedia. The Grey Lady is…some sexist remark.