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[Roger Clarke]

At 15:15 +0800 21/9/06, brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:
>It's not the source code I'd worry about it's the bit about "encrypted tunnel
>from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer"
>
>Tor decrypts my comms and sends it out in the clear. Tor gets to find out
>everything I do. Especially stuff I'm trying to hide.

I haven't looked at this, and haven't got time to right now, but 
surely Tor accepts whatever payload is pushed at it?  It's designed 
as a generic service, isn't it?  Why would it want to know the 
content of the message?  And how could it if it wanted to?

[Please pinch/punch me hard if I'm being silly]

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