1) Tor's ED thinks Facebook or Google should "take over" Tor?
2) holy shit this website is horrible (popups, etc)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tor-project-use-us-public-libraries-boost-network-speed-1513325
Mike Linksvayer likes this.
The writing is somewhat better than the site, perhaps. Found http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/tor-aphex-twin-taylor-swift where the former Tor ED is quoted:
But as mainstream popularity grows, and publicity stunts attract hundreds of thousands more people on the network, Tor will inevitably become strained. The foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which oversees the open-source standard, can only stave off that moment for a certain length of time; eventually, it will have to hand responsibility for building out the infrastructure to a bigger company. Lewman compares Tor’s position now to “the people who wrote TCP/IP, the basic IP stacks you rely on to get on the internet.” They came up with the idea, but it was “the networking companies [who] figured it out” and managed to come up with the internet as we know it. Tor exists “to do research and development of online privacy. “And if Google or Facebook or Twitter or [Russian social network] VKontakte or [Chinese social network] QQ or one of these massive internet companies said “hey let’s look at Tor, what could we do to deploy Tor on our own networks, integrated into our own products”, they’ve got a lot of really smart people. They’ll figure it out.”
Mike Linksvayer at 2015-07-31T01:38:52Z
Greg Grossmeier likes this.
The quote itself is a giant type error. Tor is both a piece of open source software and a protocol. Anyone can implement the protocol any time they like. Anyone can fork the software any time they like. There is no need to hand responsibility to anyone -- responsibility is there for the taking whenever you want it.