Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012, at 00:14, Mike Perry wrote:
> .onion is another thing that is tragically failing to reach its
> potential because no one tries to make it useful for normal stuff. I
> rather intensely dislike the way it is being used now, but I also know
> that good use cases exist, and amazing ones are possible.
> 
> Anonymized communication endpoints have the potential to revolutionize
> how people communicate. The ability to transmit a message to a hidden
> endpoint inside an overlay network allows for chat, email and social
> network sharing mechanisms that do not disclose your social network
> activity to observers or to infrastructure maintainers. This is an
> incredibly awesome and powerful tool. I worry deeply we'll lose it
> before it has a chance to develop away from just being used for
> thoughtcrime.

The non technical, non freak population doesn't really see the use in
the developed World as Facebook marketing is way past advertisments and
into the actual news. Just the other day I have read a fascinating
article in one national newspaper about how the parents who have teens
should advise their children to check up on FB the people they meet
online as (and that is an aproximate quote) only freaks and weirdos
won't have a public profile. They went even further as how to check on
their FB activity for the sake of âsafetyâ. In short they really bought
the if you don't have anything to hide...

Also, to generate a .onion is not trivial. And it's not a one click plus
a form like getting a hotmail account. Make it as easy as getting a
Wordpress account and the numbers will rise. But I'm not sure the
quality will rise.

Also, hosting the files @home is not easy as most normal people do not
have computers that run 24/7. But offering an endorsed service would
mean staff to do some cleaning up.
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