On 01/13/2014 12:15 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
What do you mean by "endpoints"?
The computer from which the edit is made is the salient one. Or, indeed even visual observation of the person of interest coupled with rubber hose crypto.
The scenario I am trying to explain is that which starts from the given premise: "Assume a person under continual surveillance." TOR offers no protection against that scenario, privacy pundits notwithstanding.
Plus, it sounds a bit like a variation of the "I have nothing to hide" argument to me, to which I couldn't disagree more with.
No, it does not.
What I *am* saying is that if you place your freedom or life in danger by editing Wikipedia then TOR only provides very limited protection at best, and the scenarios where that is not the case are already adequately covered with IPBE.
It it worthwhile to try and give as much privacy as possible for people under repressive regimes? On moral grounds, without doubt. But those are rare an exceptional circumstances, and the cost of opening the door to abuse is high. By definition, any real solution will be involved, hard to get right, and expensive (in time and resources).
-- Marc