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Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] Not another Haystack right?



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 06:10:14PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote:
>
>> > In summary, I think we should try to expand the way people use Tor, as
>> > opposed to pushing them towards less safe solutions.
>>
>> Interesting. And I tend to agree. I feel there is more and more room for
>> a higher-latency suite of applications.
>
> Anything SMTP (especially if artificially slowed down) seems a good
> candidate. Taking a chapter from rms, send your requests to fetch
> HTTP resources via an email gateway. NNTP would be another.
If you are letting latency rise that high, a Type III remailer
suddenly becomes a plausible alternative to Tor. Could it be that the
demand for low-latency anonymity of the type Tor provides just isn't
that high, as it makes interactive use difficult?
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