[tor-talk] Speculation: Next 10 years of Tor?

[mirimir]

On 07/04/2013 11:39 PM, adrelanos wrote:

> mirimir:
>> On 07/04/2013 09:54 PM, anonymous coward wrote:
>>
>>> adrelanos:
>>>
>>>>  Without Tor servers
>>>> in the US and a few other countries with a noticeable amount of Tor
>>>> servers, there is usable Tor network anymore.
>>>
>>> Is there no way to run "hidden Tor servers"? The schizophrenic thing
>>> about western governments is they would like to ban anonymizers like
>>> Tor, but they use it themselves. Embassies use anonymizers, politicians
>>> use it. I think it is too important to ban it totally. I hope it is...
>>
>> One can run Tor relays through VPNs with port forwarding.
> 
> That just pushes the risk one step further. If Tor gets banned, VPN
> services get banned all in one go.

Well, VPN services are getting banned already.

The vast majority of Internet traffic will be HD video. Maybe Tor etc
can hide there.