[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Mon Jan 27 17:20:04 UTC 2014


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==== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/4 ====
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version 19
Author: lunar
Date:   2014-01-27T16:49:06+00:00

   write about businessweek and fud

--- version 18
+++ version 19
@@ -41,6 +41,35 @@
 
  [XXX] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/publications/sniper-ndss2014.pdf
  [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-denial-service-attacks-and-defenses
+
+The media and some terminology 
+------------------------------
+
+BusinessWeek published “The inside story of Tor, the best Internet
+anonymity tool the government ever built” [XXX]. Better that what one
+can usually read about Tor in the press, the piece — courtesy of Dune
+Lawrence — still sparkled a discussion on the tor-talk mailing list
+about terminology [XXX].
+
+Katya Titov quoted a misleading part of the article: “In addition to
+facilitating anonymous communication online, Tor is an access point to
+the "dark Web," vast reaches of the Internet that are intentionally kept
+hidden and don't show up in Google or other search engines, […].” 
+
+As references to the “dark web”, the “deep web”, or the “dark deep shady
+Knockturn Alley of the Internet” have been popping up more and more in
+the media over the past months, Katya wanted to come up with proper
+definitions of commonly misunderstood terms to reduce misinformation and
+FUD [XXX].
+
+She summarized the result of the discussion in a new
+“HowBigIsTheDarkWeb” wiki page [XXX]. Be sure to point it to your fellow
+jounalists!
+
+ [XXX] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/tor-anonymity-software-vs-dot-the-national-security-agency
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-January/031863.html
+ [XXX] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
+ [XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HowBigIsTheDarkWeb
 
 Miscellaneous news
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@@ -96,8 +125,6 @@
 Possible items:
 
  * @outlook.com is now supported to request bridges and bundles via email https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6591#comment:4
- * http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/tor-anonymity-software-vs-dot-the-national-security-agency (let's recognize a good press article for once?) - reaction to some speculations https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HowBigIsTheDarkWeb
- * terminology https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-January/031863.html
  * stats on Weather https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10699#comment:3
 
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