Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2015, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Reading these links the technology seems pretty much the same ie. using a secure anonymous brouser ( Tor) to; access an otherwise invisible website.The problem / possibility which I was hoping to highlight by referencing "ombudsmen" was the much wider appllication.of such technology beyond merely protecting newspaper sources; eg. Police internal affairs; oversight of intelligence organizations, public scrutiny of large commercial organizations, etc.
Some of these applications may be well served by the proposal described in this article: https://lwn.net/Articles/640295/
That depends on the implementation. If someone uses a regular web browser with tor instead of torbrowser then their combination of OS, fonts, browser version, screen resolution, etc probably narrows it down a bit.
And as you mention, this narrows it down altogether too much in many cases. Undoubtedly, human rights organizations encounter these issues frequently. They need reliable information, often from states with poor human rights records where political freedom is strongly curtailed. I don't think it's possible for anyone who isn't proficient in installing software and running it reliably to have anonymity. Consider this a privilege for those in the know, just as e-mail encryption with public-key infrastructure is.