• Dslreports, Monday, December 7, 2015 4 PM

Law enforcement authorities in France want to ban the anonymous Tor network. French politicians also are mulling whether to prohibit public WiFi during emergencies.

Karl Bode at DSLReports points out that the people responsible for the recent attacks in Paris used "traditional, unencrypted SMS to communicate." He adds: "Banning public Wi-Fi (helpful for traditional civilians trying to communicate during an emergency) and Tor (helpful for journalists, whistleblowers, and anybody desiring privacy) might do more harm than good, and overshadows the fact that the exiting, traditional surveillance and law enforcement system failed to detect the Paris attacks."

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