[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#836266: Bug#836266: Bug#836266: dirmngr: Please disable "use-tor" by default.

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> dirmngr has a range of problems right now with its understanding of
> which hosts are alive and dead.  I've been reporting them upstream, some
> of them have been fixed, and some haven't yet.

Cool, glad there's WIP on this front, and thanks for your work :)

> avoiding the use of tor for parcimonie seems like it would (a) not solve
> the underlying problems, and (b) be more likely to expose users to
> network surveillance.

Sure. To be fair though, I don't think anyone suggested that
parcimonie stops using Tor. I think that what's at stake is whether it
is acceptable that parcimonie configures dirmngr to use Tor, in a way
that applies to *all* other uses of dirmngr.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri