Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor 242
hypnosec writes "Authorities in Japan are presumably worried about their inability to tackle cybercrime and, in a bid to stem one of the sources of anonymous traffic, the National Police Agency (NPA) is asking ISPs to block Tor. The recommendation comes from the special panel formed by the NPA after a hacker going by the name Demon Killer was found to regularly use Tor to anonymize his online activities, like posting of death threats on public message boards."
Re:Sure, go ahead. (Score:5, Informative)
TOR is not the problem... Well, not the problem the Japanese police claim.
It IS a problem for the corporate/government control of information. It probably bothers TEPCO greatly, [rt.com] that this is out there - and damned near impossible to filter.
Cybercrime. The great Emmanuel Goldstein, needed to keep in place, proles and party members alike.
Thank you (Score:5, Informative)
Thank you for reminding us about TEPCO as well as posting that specific link.
After Fukushima, the Japanese government lied about the radiation until a hacker space started building GPS radiation sensor devices. They gave an excellent talk from 29c3 :
Safecast: DIY and citizen-sensing of radiation [29c3] [youtube.com]
Did I mention they used Open Street Map [openstreetmap.org]? Open Street Map rocks! It's basically the wikipedia of maps, blows away google maps.
idiotic (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Japan (Score:5, Informative)
You would be very wrong.
Boston has the lowest rate of gun violence in the US at 3.6 / 100k each year.
Since the population is about 600K, that's 22 per year.
These people were killing at a rate of about 1 per day.
Iran and Syria Cannot Stop Tor (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Sure, go ahead. (Score:5, Informative)
Two problems here.
(1) The article has nothing to do with Fukushima or TEPCO. It's about someone who sent anonymous death threats.
(2) Sherman and Mangano, the authors of the paper you linked to an article about, are kooks. Just google on their names together, and you'll find plenty of info discrediting their claims, e.g.: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/20/researchers-trumpet-another-flawed-fukushima-death-study/ [scientificamerican.com]
(3) The Open Journal of Pediatrics appears to be one of the many open-access journals these days that have no standards for publication. See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html [nytimes.com] for more about these journals. I support the concept of open-access journals, but many of them are junk journals.
(4) Sherman and Mangano's junk science didn't get blocked by evil governments or evil corporations. They put it on the internet and nobody interfered with them.
Re:Sure, go ahead. (Score:5, Informative)
Just as an informative point, the headline on the TEPCO link is a gross mis-statement of the actual facts.
One third of US born west coast babies are NOT suffering from hyperthyroidism.
What happened is the RATE of hyperthyroidism, which is quite low, increased by 28% for a couple of months, and to a level 16% higher than normal for a period of 9 months.
That corresponds to about 40 cases in 600,000 births. Still a problem but about 1/5,000th of what the headline claims.
Re:Japan (Score:3, Informative)
Which is why most of their cops don't even carry guns. Or, maybe, you're using that term "police state" but it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means.....
Re:Japan (Score:3, Informative)
I believe you may have confused Japan with the U.K. Cops I saw on the street in my months in Osaka routinely carried revolvers. Not that it matters; a police state has nothing to do with whether police carry firearms, it has to do with totalitarian government -- which, when the population has been disarmed, can function quite well even with low-level functionaries not carrying firearms.
Re:Japan (Score:5, Informative)
Wrong, as another person said gun death rate in Boston is 22 per year.
These people who were caught/shot were throwing yet more bombs at the authorities as they were being chased. They had a whole house full of them as well.
Do you think they stock piled them just for fun?
Re:idiotic (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Iran and Syria Cannot Stop Tor (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Iran and Syria Cannot Stop Tor (Score:3, Informative)
FLET's is not filtered at NTT's level. It all gets passed off to the individual ISPs who have to handle transit and filtering themselves.
au Hikari is a different situation.
Disclaimer: I work for a japanese ISP.
Re:Japan, a new Iran ? (Score:2, Informative)
Not US, nor UK, nor most other countries, TOR are not officially blocked, at the ISP level
You better check out this http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2009/06/features/the-hidden-censors-of-the-internet [wired.co.uk]
Yes, this IS the UK we're talking about, now go cry a river to your representatives.
Re:Demon Killer Hacker (Score:3, Informative)
I live in Japan. There's 3 hardware stores within 5 kilometers of me. All of them carry axes. Of multiple varieties. You're full of bullshit.
Re:Sure, go ahead. (Score:5, Informative)
They caught the guy who sent them so I'm not sure why Tor needs to be blocked.
Re:Sure, go ahead. (Score:2, Informative)
That corresponds to about 40 cases in 600,000 births.
Assuming that you mean 40 cases against an expected number of 31.3 (which is a 28% increase) ... the sqrt variance in the number of cases should be sqrt(31.3) = 5.6. Approximating the Poisson distribution as a Gaussian, that means that the extra 8.7 cases constitute a 8.7/5.6 = 1.6-sigma excess, or a p-value of 0.06 (i.e. 94% confidence). Heck, that's practically nothing. You could pick twenty random diseases, look at them, and you'd *expect* that one of them would show that much of an excess. Relevant xkcd [xkcd.com].