The Tor Project has explained its recent decision to remove multiple network relays that represented a threat to the safety and security of all Tor network users.
It’s crypto, you can’t understand it unless you already believe in it.
From the outside, blockchain looks like a spread sheet that’s so difficult to edit, you have to turn it into a slot-machine to incentivize people to try. But I don’t understand blockchain.
Sometimes, informed simplicity is the right way to go. I know more than I’d like to know about blockchain, and you pretty much nailed it. You could fancy the words up and call it an “append-only database”
I don’t know, but they already have a cryptocurrency that will presumably be used to purchase bandwidth over premium nodes or something.
The project is called aTor and trying to figure out what it does is… Tough. It’s like trying to figure out what a Ponzi scheme does, except you’ve never seen a Ponzi scheme before, and you can only get information from the people running it.
What data? Tor is designed in a way you don’t have any useable data if you don’t control a significant portion of the network. And even if they could control it, how much is that data worth anyways? ISPs don’t get rich selling traffic data afaik. Blackmail maybe?
I don’t get how they intended to make money by running a relay? What was the business plan here?
It’s crypto, you can’t understand it unless you already believe in it.
From the outside, blockchain looks like a spread sheet that’s so difficult to edit, you have to turn it into a slot-machine to incentivize people to try. But I don’t understand blockchain.
Sometimes, informed simplicity is the right way to go. I know more than I’d like to know about blockchain, and you pretty much nailed it. You could fancy the words up and call it an “append-only database”
I don’t know, but they already have a cryptocurrency that will presumably be used to purchase bandwidth over premium nodes or something.
The project is called aTor and trying to figure out what it does is… Tough. It’s like trying to figure out what a Ponzi scheme does, except you’ve never seen a Ponzi scheme before, and you can only get information from the people running it.
Selling the data, presumably
What data? Tor is designed in a way you don’t have any useable data if you don’t control a significant portion of the network. And even if they could control it, how much is that data worth anyways? ISPs don’t get rich selling traffic data afaik. Blackmail maybe?