TOR is an acronym for way into the deep web, Guy on NPR said.

[Joseph Tracy]

This really gets at the problem of the theory of the unified executive and the persecution of whistleblowers. With no accountability there  is no way to know if the porn was planted by the government,  and ultimately there is no way to have accountability for even the most substantive crimes of those in power. The central role of checks and balances in the US version of Democracy appear to be largely a thing of the past.  Big brother now includes Google, Apple, the phone companies, the banks, facebook, hallibuton, booz allen......

Obama carried out the long term CIA NSA plan of Total Information Awareness put forth by Dick Cheney. Now what?
On Aug 23, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Monte Davis wrote:

> Ummm... 
> 
> (1) out there more than a decade, and
> 
> (2)
> https://openwatch.net/i/200/anonymous-web-host-freedom-hosting-owner-arreste
> d
> 
> (this is only trivially Firefox-specific; people who should know tell me TOR
> is history)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of John Bailey
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 8:28 PM
> To: Markekohut
> Cc: pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: TOR is an acronym for way into the deep web, Guy on NPR said.
> 
> A kind of Onion Routing which allows for anonymous web surfing.
> 
> "The original data, including its destination, are encrypted and
> re-encrypted multiple times, and sent through a virtual circuit comprising
> successive, randomly selected Tor relays. Each relay decrypts a "layer" of
> encryption to reveal only the next relay in the circuit in order to pass the
> remaining encrypted data on to it. The final relay decrypts the last layer
> of encryption and sends the original data, without revealing or even knowing
> its sender, to the destination. This method reduces the chance of the
> original data being understood in transit and, more notably, conceals the
> routing of it."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Developed originally by the Navy., just FYI.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad