Re: "Once We Squeeze All We Can Out of the United States, It Can Dry Up and Blow Away."

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Ari Silversteinn wrote:

>>>>>So, who trusts Tor?
[...]
>>> It was written by Naval Intell, you trust them?
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> What I do trust is the open source community that maintains it.
>
> What would be your reasoning behind trusting explicitly open source? They

First, "explicitly" is your contrivance, not mine. Please don't put words in
my mouth.

> have the same possibility of compromise as anyone else. whose to say that
> this open source author or that open source author is not, in reality, a
> front for a TLA?

Me, for one.

Every other capable person who takes the time to examine sourrce code and
build their own executables, for another.

We already know for a fact that open source works, Ari. Evidence: JAP.

Is open source perfect? No, nothing ever is. But it's light years beyond
trying to reverse engineer closed source applications. So far removed in
fact, that yes, it *does* instill a high level of trust in most people.
Deservedly so.

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Hand crafted on September 21, 2005 at 09:45:08 AM

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
                                          - Marx

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Received on Thu Sep 29 21:56:27 2005