On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Dave Neary <
dneary gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> On 11/30/2012 12:20 PM, Allan Day wrote:
>>>
>>> - Tentative agreement for Karen to reach out to the Tor Project
>>> (
https://www.torproject.org) and others for a campaign related to
>>> Privacy and Security.
>>
>>
>> I've had a bit of a think about Tor integration from a design point of
>> view, and have filed a bug [1] against Settings. It could make sense,
>> but it will need more research before we can make a decision.
>
>
> I assume everyone has heard about this by now?
>
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/
>
> Tor will be a big battleground over the next year - with all sorts of
> repercussions for Net Neutrality, privacy on the net and the ability to
> avoid tracking, versus law enforcement and facilitation of illegal activity.
>
> I would be very happy to see GNOME take a strong stance in defence of
> personal liberty and freedom from tracking - I think there's a huge
> opportunity for us to team up with groups like Mozilla and EFF, who are
> thinking a lot about the issue of tracking on the web, and make a group
> effort to defend projects like Tor against persecution by law enforcement,
> with the end result of a practical erosion of our freedoms.
>
> The frame is being set - if you're for Tor you're for child pornography. We
> cannot allow the message to be set in this way, we need to tell another
> story, one of Big Brother and protecting our children from predators on the
> internet with projects like ghostery and collusion:
>
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html
>
