Addressing Tor in the Fedora Security Guide

Eric "Sparks" Christensen sparks at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 4 19:19:10 UTC 2010


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On 10/04/2010 03:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 15:04:42 -0400,
>   "Eric \"Sparks\" Christensen" <sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> I was asked, earlier today, why Tor wasn't addressed in the Fedora
>> Security Guide.  Anyone have any feelings on whether or not addressing
>> system would be appropriate for the SG?
> 
> I think the context of the security guide is securing your system.
> tor isn't really part of that. tor is for providing anonymity, which really
> is a separate topic. And to be properly described really needs a manual
> of its own. Putting just a brief discussion about tor in with other
> security stuff, has the potential to do more harm than good.

Yeah, I understand that.  There is a fine line between security and
privacy and to do privacy justice it should probably have a guide of its
own (probably not a Fedora topic).

- --Eric
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