[tor-talk] A community concern that needs to be addressed,

[myzeus at openmailbox.org]

On 2016-08-18 22:07, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:49:04PM -0400, myzeus at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>  I feel like Tor has become increasingly user-friendly
>> and the Tor Browser Bundle is by far less 'intimidating' to perform
>> first time configuration than it was a few years ago.
> 
> Yay! Sign me up. There are many millions of people around the world
> who can benefit from the things that Tor Browser can do for them,
> but there's still a lot of work to be done.
> 
> In fact, wait a minute, I already wrote this text before. :) Here is 
> the
> middle chunk of my blog post from last December 1st -- I still believe
> it all now, and I think it gives us some good ideas for a future 
> roadmap
> of Tor's priorities.
> 
> "We have much more work ahead of us in the coming years. First and
> foremost, we care about our users and the usability of our tools. We
> want to accelerate user growth: The Tor network sees millions of users
> each day, but there are tens of millions more who are waiting for it to
> be just a little bit faster, more accessible, or easier to install. We
> want to get the word out that Tor is for everyone on the planet.
> 
> We also need to focus on outreach and education, and on helping our
> allies who focus on public policy to succeed. Tor is still the best
> system in the world against large adversaries like governments, but
> these days the attackers are vastly outspending the defenders across 
> the
> board. So in addition to keeping Tor both strong and usable, we need to
> provide technical advice and support to groups like EFF and ACLU while
> they work to rein in the parts of our governments that have gone beyond
> the permissions and limits that our laws meant to give them.
> 
> From an organization and community angle, we need to improve our 
> stability
> by continued work on transparency and communication, strengthening our
> leadership, choosing our priorities well, and becoming more agile and
> adapting to the most important issues as they arise.
> 
> Taller mountains await after these: We need to tackle the big open
> anonymity problems like correlation attacks, we need to help websites
> learn how to engage with users who care about privacy, and we need to
> demonstrate to governments around the world that we don't have to 
> choose
> between security and privacy."
> 
> --Roger

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I'd like to state / ask a few things:

1) When running standard Firefox and added NoScript is became just as 
slow as Tor Browser. This would point to the plugin causing it's own set 
of issues not related to the speed of the Tor network. Is adding more 
relays and exits enough to speed up the network? Do we possibly need 
further software and relay optimization?

2) Tor Browser Bundle is a great piece of software. Both the user 
experience and setup is simple now.

3) Education is important to ensure that every Tor user is safe. What 
should Tor users be doing to assist in the education of other future Tor 
users?

4) I am happy to see that the Tor Project recently released their 
'social contract'.

5) When I sent the initial email I was not saying anything 'bad' (if we 
want to word it that way) but rather simpled wanted the Tor Project's 
opinion on the user's concern.

Thanks,
Nathaniel Suchy / MyZeus
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