Re: [tor-talk] tor virus

[Anthony Papillion <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like this idea. But I don't think it's something the core Tor devs should be working on. Too many ethical questions and too many 'gotchas' if things go wrong. Perhaps it's something an independent dev might want to take on but I'd keep it completely separate from Tor at all costs.

Anthony

> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:36:03 +0200
> From: ethiotor@xxxxxxxxx
> To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tor-talk] tor virus
> 
> I am from Ethiopia. The problem faced by descendants in Ethiopia is many
> fold. 90 million people, a brutal repressive government by any standard, a
> single government owned ISP that has more  government spies  than actual
> telecommunication workers, a very poor and limited mobile and data
> infrastructure and sophisticated snooping (
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethiopia-introduces-deep-packet-inspection)
> regime. Certainly tor could benefit many people if it could be used
> "widely". But with all the above problems how? And it just occurred to me!!
> 
> I am not a coder so I don't know if it is possible. I am not certain what
> ethical questions it could raise or if it should at all under the above
> circumstance.
> 
> Most of the PCs in the country are in government offices or given to
> government workers. And most of this PCs are the only once that has a
> relatively fast and free Internet access. Some thing that is common about
> all this PCs is that most of them are full of virus and Trojan horses (some
> say Chinese origin). Even state minsters offices. I am sure by now you are
> guessing where I am going with this.
> 
> What if there is a tor "virus" (pardon for the choice of word) that can
> infect such pc and make a relay, bridge, or what ever on the background
> undetected. Or that could be installed by some one and stay hidden and do
> it's job.
> 
> I have a feeling that if it were a smart idea some one would have thought
> of it but I could not sleep until I know how stupid an idea it is.
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