Hello friends. Giordano here with a little video I made while you await new content on The Juice Media. Unlike you, George Orwell became highly impatient with the hiatus on the channel and so he made me upload this special announcement about the Internet and your online rights... which he wants you all to heed very, very carefully.
(NB. Despite being a 'spin-off', this is not a RAP NEWS video! Apologies in advance to anyone who may feel bitterly, even mortally disappointed by this. Despite that, I hope you find the video promising of things to come on the channel. I am eager to hear what you think. If enough peeps don't hate on this, I might make more of these in 2016...)
Speaking of 2016, my best wishes to all you fellow Juicers for a healthy and fulfilling new year.
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I think I should respond to a number of comments here saying 'Tor is a navy project', 'can it be trusted?' etc. Much of this is based on misunderstandings. Here's the deal: while onion routing technology was a navy project, Tor was never a navy project. Roger Dingledine (Tor's Director) wrote Tor originally, and it's been open source since almost the very beginning. The other essential thing to keep in mind is that Tor -- the design, the specifications, and the code -- are all open and transparent: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#DesignDoc Moreover the Tor Project works with dozens of academic research groups around the world who analyze and improve Tor's security, performance, and scalability: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/ So, if you think there might be a conspiracy to try to trick the world into using a weak anonymity system, then you also need to believe that all the respected academic security researchers, from countries all around the world, are in on it too. That's what it comes down to! That being said: Tor isn't a silver bullet to keep you safe in all situations against all attacks. But it IS the best design we (the world) have against large adversaries (like governments). As Edward Snowden (who worked at the NSA) recently said in an interview: "I think Tor is the most important privacy-enhancing technology project being used today. I use Tor personally all the time... That’s not to say that Tor is bulletproof. What Tor does is it provides a measure of security..." Think about it this way: We wear seatbelts in cars and helmets on bikes, not because they are bulletproof solutions to road accidents, but because they offer an increased measure of security in road accidents. The one crucial difference is that, with encryption, the more people use it, the more effective it becomes. It is far harder for the NSA to de-anonymize a Tor user if there are millions of more exit nodes to monitor. And the same principle applies to other strong crypto tools: Strength in numbers. Hence, George Torwell' advice to run Tor in RN15: ("even if you don't use it, run it so the network's force swells"). I hope this helps to clarify this point, and would encourage peeps to research this more before claiming that Tor is an NSA honey-pot. Claims like these, unless founded (and referenced!) are unhelpful, as they can do a lot of damage to the valuable work of people who are working hard to protect our online rights and freedoms. Unless of course your mission happens to BE trying to undermine the work and damage the reputation of people who are working hard to protect our online rights and freedoms ;) ~G
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