| First, I would like to separate the little-t tor from big-T Tor for a second. I had the privilege of attending the most recent dev meeting and found the Tor Project to be an incredible group of people who are dedicated to a single mission[1]. Besides working on `tor`, members of the Tor project are also working on better censorship resistance[2], reproducible builds[3], and improving Firefox[4], among other efforts. To me, a motivated corps of technologists that have the resources to work on projects to protect user privacy can do anything under the right leadership. > oversold as solving problems it can never hope to If onion routing can't solve the problem of masking your location on the internet (thus providing greater anonymity) then what can? Right now I see it as the only practical solution for doing so. I also don't see any of the problems you listed as fundamental issues. Hidden services are fairly new, for example, and a new spec is being actively worked on. I understand that it is sometimes billed as a panacea of sorts, but I feel that the Tor Project is honest with itself and its users about the protection that `tor` provides[5]. [1] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/635856569201246208 [2] https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4 [3] https://reproducible-builds.org [4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rF4Gah_OEequYDfPedoQ... [5] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/nine-questions-about-hidden... |