TOR and Linux -in the real world- on lower end hardware?

[Brian Kelsay]

*Tor* (*The Onion Router*) is a free software implementation of
second-generation onion routing – a system enabling its users to communicate
anonymously
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Tor*_(anonymity_network)

Note: No pigeons were harmed in the creation of this message.


On Jan 9, 2008 11:03 AM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, January 8, 2008 08:51, Oren Beck wrote:
> > The short end of this is a question raised about traveling folks using
> > TOR from Campgrounds on low end hardware.
>
> Oren, WTF is "TOR"?  TCP Over Racing-pigeon?
>
> It's bad enough when people use non-standard acronyms of their own
> devising on IRC, where you can get an explanation in real time, but for a
> semi-literate mailing list, we should do better.
>
> There was an old "stylesheet" (book of rules for how things get written
> consistently), I think it was the NY Times or the Times of London, that
> suggested that the first usage of an acronym should spell out the term,
> followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, so: TCP Over Racing-pigeon
> (TOR).
>
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