[tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

[Mark McCarron]

Krishna,

Please.  You are a PC repair guy who can install Linux.  

Regards,

Mark McCarron

> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:10:28 -0400
> From: keb at cyblings.on.ca
> To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and	Anonymity
> 
> (tl;dr: humor, no content)
> 
> On 14-06-30 02:14 PM, Mark McCarron wrote:
> > Mick,
> > 
> > I would be very careful what you claim in your emails.  I have the capability of suing you into oblivion, that email constitutes defamation.  Nothing like that was ever said, either retract it or I will take you for everything that you've got.
> > 
> > Your choice.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Mark McCarron
> 
> There was nothing in Mick's email a regular wiseguy on the street
> wouldnt have quipped after reading Mark McCarron's unsupported
> assertions, certainly nothing legally actionable.
> 
> Mark has succeeded in proving something, however.
> Namely that he is clueless as well as full of, erm, bluster.
> I hope for his sake none of his colleagues, multi-million dollar
> employers or clients, read these threads.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:11:50 +0100
> > From: mbm at rlogin.net
> > To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity
> > 
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:05:06 -0400
> > tor at t-3.net allegedly wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a hard time believing that you've been effectively tracking so 
> >> much 'child porn, rape, snuff videos' content that you can 
> >> conclusively say that all such content has suddenly disappeared from 
> >> Tor. My knowledge about the way that kind of content works is, that
> >> no one person would be able to access much of it unless they were a 
> >> creator/trader of the stuff. Such a person would be trying to be 
> >> low-key about it out of fear for themselves, not posting in this list 
> >> and seeming to admit to having been tracking that content. So - - not 
> >> a match, for whatever reason.
> >  
> > Interesting point. In many, if not most, countries the very act of
> > accessing such material is illegal. Yet, McCarron, in his post of 25
> > June, admitted on this public email list that he now had difficulty
> > accessing "the more serious categories, such as child porn and
> > violent sexual material".
> >  
> > That strikes me as stupid. Certainly it is not "low key" as you say.
> >  
> > Mick
> >   
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  
> >  Mick Morgan
> >  gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B  72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312
> >  http://baldric.net
> >  
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> >  
> > 
> 
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