O.K. I've been biting my tongue on this one for a while now. I'll try to keep this short as it is not specifically TOR related As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I'm personally getting annoyed by this whole "nab the paedophiles thing". for several reasons: 1.) 90+ percent of sexual abuse of children happen from family members or friends of the family.. so wasting huge resources on 10% while blatantly (and blissfully) ignoring the 90%, does society a huge disservice. by focusing the public's attention on the smallest part of the problem and away from the real problems. 2.) I can almost guarantee that his guys "key words" would trigger on abuse survivors talking in an online support group and I can't even begin to tell you how damaging it would be for an abuse survivor to have to deal with being falsely accused of being a perp. I think what needs to be done here is to create a FAQ or other standard document that will 1.) inform the vastly misinformed public. 2.) list places and ways they can make a difference. I do appreciate that people are actually trying to look at this.. it would just be nice if they were looking at the real problem. in short trying to destroy anonymity (which is necessary for many abuse survivors to begin the healing process) to waste the courts time with illegally obtained evidence, from chasing a small fraction of abusers, while ignoring the real problem and misleading the public while doing so is NOT a service to me nor to society in general. To the people on this list that are all gung ho to stop internet paedophiles I'd suggest you leave TOR alone and get involved with an established group such as perverted justice ( http://www.perverted-justice.com/ ) who have a history of working with law enforcement and making a real difference. Better yet volunteer at your local rape crisis centre. hound your government officials so perps don't walk with a 6 mo sentence after abusing their children for years. etc. I do apologize for the lack of brevity and the slightly OT post. 'nuff said Freemor On Wed, 2007-07-03 at 05:28 +0000, Fergie wrote: > Hmmm. > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=114 > > Comments? > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > ------ Freemor <freemor@xxxxxxxx> Freemor <freemor@xxxxxxxxxx> This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG
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