Commit 89b7021a authored by Roger Dingledine's avatar Roger Dingledine
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fix a few typos and clarify one point. i hope we have 

an editor who actually edits, rather than the traditional
academic role of editors.

but in any case, it'll do. great.


svn:r10581
parent 26b94115

doc/design-paper/sptor.tex

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@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ network. This ``distributed trust'' approach means the Tor network 
can be safely operated and used by a wide variety of mutually

distrustful users, providing sustainability and security.



The Tor network has a broad range of users making it difficult for

The Tor network has a broad range of users, making it difficult for

eavesdroppers to track them or profile interests. These include

ordinary citizens concerned about their privacy, corporations who

don't want to reveal information to their competitors, and law
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ This distribution of trust is central to the Tor philosophy and 
pervades Tor at all levels: Onion routing has been open source since

the mid-nineties (mistrusting users can inspect the code themselves);

Tor is free software (anyone could take up the development of Tor from

the current team); anyone can use Tor without license or charge, (which

the current team); anyone can use Tor without license or charge (which

encourages a broad user base with diverse interests); Tor is designed to be

usable (also promotes a large, diverse userbase); and configurable (so

usable (also promotes a large, diverse user base) and configurable (so

users can easily set up and run server nodes); the Tor

infrastructure is run by volunteers (it is not dependent on the

economic viability or business strategy of any company) who are
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ blockable is important to being good netizens, we would like to 
encourage services to allow anonymous access. Services should not need

to decide between blocking legitimate anonymous use and allowing

unlimited abuse.  Nonetheless, blocking IP addresses is a

course-grained solution~\cite{netauth}: entire appartment buildings,

course-grained solution~\cite{netauth}: entire apartment buildings,

campuses, and even countries sometimes share a single IP address.

Also, whether intended or not, such blocking supports repression of

free speech. In many locations where Internet access of various kinds
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ example, the Freenode IRC network had a problem with a coordinated 
group of abusers joining channels and subtly taking over the

conversation; but when they labelled all users coming from Tor IP

addresses as ``anonymous users,'' removing the ability of the abusers

to blend in, the abuse stopped.  This is an illustration of how simple

to blend in, the abusers stopped using Tor.  This is an illustration of

how simple

technical mechanisms can remove the ability to abuse anonymously

without undermining the ability to communicate anonymously and can

thus remove the incentive to attempt abusing in this way.