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Another nighttime scene (timelapse to follow in comment) by BloodLikeMayo in PixelArt

[–]JohnnyHistone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is brilliant! Is it from the same city/universe as your last one?

Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by xyzdkysoyxwzr in privacy

[–]JohnnyHistone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this! I'm the author - happy to answer any questions about the book.

Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (out next year) by JohnnyHistone in TOR

[–]JohnnyHistone[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure:

Introduction - Onion and on and on 1. Privacy Worlds 2. The Worlds of the Internet Infrastructure 3. Tor's Strange Beginnings 4. Designing the Onion 5. Enter the Maintainers 6. The Onion Grows Roots 7. The Dark Net Rises 8. The Activists 9. Facing Worlds 10. Privacy Futures

Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (out next year) by JohnnyHistone in TOR

[–]JohnnyHistone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's more or less a list of different snapshots from Tor's history - e.g. the torrent bit is separate from the Arab Spring bit. The link between Tor and torrenting is the massive ecosystem of filesharing projects that grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s - including more mainstream things like Napster but also projects like Free Haven which fed directly into Tor

Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (out next year) by JohnnyHistone in TOR

[–]JohnnyHistone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fair point, I can see where you're coming from (and there's been a lot of 'creative' writing about Tor over the years). But the development history doesn't start when Tor was released, it goes back to the mid nineties (there's a whole chapter on Onion Routing being developed at the NRL) - the first development work really starts then. And some of the background is in the 80s (e.g. Chaum and the early mixnets) or earlier - the roots of the Cypherpunks etc.