Tor’s (security) role in the future of the Internet, with Alec Muffett
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Do we get to a point where every website has an onion sigt? Is that something that is advisable, or even possible? I think there would be scaling challenges to look at that sort of practically. But also, we work in the security industry, and threat modelling is a thing. And tor offers a means to mitigate a certain threat model. It does this by bringing essentially an entirely network stack to the table with a whole pile of improved and different characteristics to the t c p ip network stack. Does every web sipe need to run tor? Probably not your electricity company or utilities or something like that. Doesn't need to. Amazon probably doesn't need to but for certain ones,
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