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[or-cvs] try out a better takeaway message
Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/website
Modified Files:
overview.html
Log Message:
try out a better takeaway message
Index: overview.html
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -d -r1.3 -r1.4
--- overview.html 14 Nov 2004 09:56:38 -0000 1.3
+++ overview.html 14 Nov 2004 12:49:42 -0000 1.4
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@
Of course, Tor can't solve all privacy problems itself. Tor focuses on
protecting the <em>transport</em>. You need to use other protocol-specific
software, such as Privoxy for web browsing, to clean identifying
-information such as browser type and characteristics, and you need
-to use other common sense such as not providing your name or other
+information like browser type and characteristics, and you need
+to use other common sense: don't provide your name or other
revealing information in web forms. Also, like all anonymizing networks
that are fast enough for web browsing, Tor does not provide protection
against end-to-end timing attacks: if your attacker can watch the traffic
@@ -114,12 +114,16 @@
</p>
<p>
-Providing a usable anonymizing network on the Internet today is hard,
-both in terms of providing usable software that meets users' needs,
-and also in terms of solving the research challenges. But we're making
-progress at finding a good balance to provide both usability and security.
-Our goal is to supplement laws by giving people the power to make their
-own decisions about their privacy.
+Anonymity is threatened as never before by trends in law, policy, and
+technology that are undermining our ability to speak and read freely
+online without revealing who we are. Rather than trusting to laws to
+maintain our rights, Tor aims to give people the power to make their own
+decisions about their privacy. Providing a usable anonymizing network on
+the Internet today is an ongoing challenge, both in terms of providing
+usable software that meets users' needs, and also in terms of keeping the
+network up and able to handle all the users; but we're making progress
+at finding a good balance to provide both usability and security. Please
+do what you can to help out.
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