For a little bit of fun: Try linking to <a href="https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en" rel="nofollow">https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en</a> on Facebook and marvel at the non-descript error messages. They depend on where you try to post it (timeline, comment). For example "could not be posted because of technical error, try again in a few minutes"...
The link times out for me on Verizon, but it works under Tor. For those who cannot access it, here is the text of the page:<p>We've been thinking of state surveillance for years because of our work in places where journalists are threatened. Tor's anonymity is based on distributed trust, so observing traffic at one place in the Tor network, even a directory authority, isn't enough to break it. Tor has gone mainstream in the past few years, and its wide diversity of users -- from civic-minded individuals and ordinary consumers to activists, law enforcement, and companies -- is part of its security. Just learning that somebody visited the Tor or Tails website doesn't tell you whether that person is a journalist source, someone concerned that her Internet Service Provider will learn about her health conditions, or just someone irked that cat videos are blocked in her location.<p>Trying to make a list of Tor's millions of daily users certainly counts as widescale collection. Their attack on the bridge address distribution service shows their "collect all the things" mentality -- it's worth emphasizing that we designed bridges for users in countries like China and Iran, and here we are finding out about attacks by our own country. Does reading the contents of those mails violate the wiretap act? Now I understand how the Google engineers felt when they learned about the attacks on their infrastructure.
The release of this source code does not match Snowden's modus operandi, which is to avoid releasing technical details which would allow other governments to construct similar surveillance systems. Bruce Schneier and Glenn Greenwald believe that there are now multiple NSA leakers [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/485081861119832064" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/485081861119832064</a>
I can't even see this blog. See the screenshot at
<a href="http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/tor-mitm.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/tor-mitm.png</a><p>Transcription follows:<p>--<p>Cannot connect to the real torproject.org<p>Something is currently interfering with your secure connection to torproject.org.<p>Try to reload this page in a few minutes or after switching to a new network. If you have recently connected to a new Wi-Fi network, finish logging in before reloading.<p>If you were to visit torproject.org right now, you might share private information with an attacker. To protect your privacy, Chrome will not load the page until it can establish a secure connection to the real torproject.org.
<i>it's worth emphasizing that we designed bridges for users in countries like China and Iran, and here we are finding out about attacks by our own country.</i><p>We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.<p>This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp-privacy-under-attack-nsa-files-revealed-new-threats-democracy" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp-privac...</a>
There's no reason not to link to the primary source.<p><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/being-targeted-nsa" rel="nofollow">https://blog.torproject.org/blog/being-targeted-nsa</a>
I found this particularly resonated:<p>"...we designed bridges for users in countries like China and Iran, and here we are finding out about attacks by our own country."<p>I don't really know what to say to the NSA/Snowden/etc. stories any more. Intellectually, I understand that each new worst revelation is worse than its predecessor - emotionally though, none of it even surprises me any more.<p>...come on Fort Meade, I <i>want</i> to be surprised. Drop something <i>really</i> juicy. Something so diabolical that it's actually cool.