From: Paul Syverson Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:14:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Some comments about the scope of the wikipedia problem X-Git-Tag: tor-0.1.0.1-rc~399 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fafbbafd4d9d0041df52d8fe66fb52a77ce64e1e;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git Some comments about the scope of the wikipedia problem svn:r3432 --- diff --git a/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex b/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex index f6d3b0dd35..032ddf5522 100644 --- a/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex +++ b/doc/design-paper/challenges.tex @@ -270,6 +270,25 @@ snipe them? Takedowns and efnet abuse and wikipedia complaints and irc networks. +This is potentially a bigger problem than it may appear. +On the one hand, if people want to refuse connections from you on +their servers it would seem that they should be allowed to. But, a +possible major problem with the blocking of Tor is that it's not just +the decision of the individual server administrator whose deciding if +he wants to post to wikipedia from his Tor node address or allow +people to read wikipedia anonymously through his Tor node. If e.g., +s/he comes through a campus or corporate NAT, then the decision must +be to have the entire population behind it able to have a Tor exit +node or write access to wikipedia. This is a loss for both of us (Tor +and wikipedia). We don't want to compete for (or divvy up) the NAT +protected entities of the world. + +Squishy IP based ``authentication'' and ``authorization'' is a reality +we must contend with. We should say something more about the analogy +with SSNs. + + + \subsection{Other} Tor's scope: How much should Tor aim to do? Applications that leak