[tor-talk] anonabox : the Tor hardware router

[Denise's Yahoo Acct]

You make a very valid point!!



> On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Shawn Nock <nock at nocko.se> wrote:
> 
> If all users use Tor only for sensitive communications, then state level adversaries can round up all users of Tor and the provided anonymity is of little use. 
> 
> Cat photos and Amazon shopping by non-subversives gives vulnerable users cover and is fundimental to the usefulness of Tor.
> 
> Should entities encouraging heavy routine use of Tor contribute relays? Absolutely.
> 
>> On November 12, 2014 12:40:06 PM MST, Denise's Yahoo Acct <unixgrl70 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I agree!  Tor should be used selectively because of bandwidth.  The
>> number of tor users is going up, which is great, but as the number of
>> users increase so does the burden on the tor net. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Nov 12, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Andrew F <andrewfriedman101 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Great, so now ALL traffic from a user of this product will be on
>>> TOR?  Amazon, Facebook, looking at cute cat videos....
>>> Have they have they set aside a few dollars of profit  to host
>> servers to
>>> match bandwidth demand?
>>> 
>>> You see my point?  Right.  Tor should be used selectively.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Aymeric Vitte
>> <vitteaymeric at gmail.com
>>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>>> I was wondering when this would happen.  Any idea if this is from
>> the
>>>>>> guys who put together the box or just some random dude?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If they want to make a good image for themselves, I'm not sure
>> that just
>>>>>> copy/pasting their text from Indigogo onto this mailing list is
>> the best
>>>>>> way to go about it...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't think there is any "hazard" in what they are doing, but
>> probably
>>>>> they don't feel they sould expose themselves to this list since
>> they
>>>> explain
>>>>> that they are already very well connected to the Tor community:
>>>>> 
>>>>> "He also volunteers for the Tor support forum the Tor Stack
>> Exchange,
>>>> and is
>>>>> an admin for the official Tor project discussion page on LinkedIn."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Still amazed that some blogers are recommending this, apparently
>> they
>>>>> promise to send them a box.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seriously when will these guys be stopped? They have lied enough,
>> the Tor
>>>>> project should say something (or are you really connected to them
>> as they
>>>>> claim?)
>>>> 
>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140516233302/http://augustgermar.com/
>>>> 
>>>> There appears to be a few tech support lines for this product
>>>> and any official-admin-ness issues.
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