Re: [tor-talk] Not comfortable with the new single-hop system merged into Tor

[Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 December 2016 at 09:40, Cannon <cannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good point.
> I believe the new single-hop is a great option for some situation such as
> if a website does not need to be anonymous but yet would still like to have
> a .onion address so users can still remain anonymous or take advantage of
> the higher security of .onion addresses over that of clearnet, and with
> advantage of less latency over that of a full hidden service.
>
> However you do bring up a good point. This new single-hop system should
> remain a feature, but should not come as default but should be an "add-on
> pack" that should have to be downloaded or compiled seperately.
>

Speaking as the person who basically instigated this feature: I call
bullshit.

People do stupid stuff.

The work on OnionScan demonstrates that a lot of Onion services are
shoddily implemented.

I am trying to help address that with "standardised build processes" like
this:


https://github.com/alecmuffett/the-onion-diaries/blob/master/basic-production-onion-server.md

But this feature is important to adoption and normalisation of Tor.

If people want to be anonymous, they should not use it, and likewise they
should not fuck up their installation to leak hostnames and IP addresses.

Let's fix that latter problem, rather than treat users as ignorant fucks
who can't be trusted not to enable a feature.

Otherwise, go work out how to ban "rm -rf /" - first.

    -a

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