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wrenches don't scale, and they provide visibilitywrenches don't scale, and they provide visibilityPosted Feb 25, 2011 19:23 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Some concerns by NAR Parent article: The Freedom Box gets off the ground
I think this is focussing on irrelevant details of an immense exaggeration.
First difference is scale. Even if everyone handed over their passwords at the mere sight of a wrench, this is *many* orders of magnitude slower than ording Facebook to hand over their entire database.
Secondly, the wrench method is publicly visible or leaves traces. We don't know if Facebook gave info to Mubarak or his allies but we would hear if a government was using physical violence to get account passwords.
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wrenches don't scale, and they provide visibility Posted Mar 3, 2011 9:37 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
Irrelevant details?
Well one detail that I don't find irrelevant is that by monitoring the access of TOR proxys, the governements can get easily a list of 'suspect users'.
If the list is small, it's very risky to be in the list, so IMHO that's something to keep in mind as the Freedom box plan to use TOR..
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