A direct e-mail to Joel got the attention needed to fix this. Looks like they'll even start using paragraphs in these entries now! :-p

Mark, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that your bandwidth usage is going to skyrocket (or someone's anyway) because you linked the movie in such a way that it loads the whole thing each time someone visits BoingBoing.

The primary problem is that people confuse 'security' with a number of other things. In this case for Internet communications, there are three things that people are assuming a 'secure' connection affords them:

1) Encryption : No one can read my words.

2) Anonymity : No one knows who sent my words.

3) In-traceability : No one can trace my words back to me.

TOR was never meant to do anything other than #3. #1 is done through SSL, SSH, or some other encrypting tool. #2 is done through remailers, or configuration of the messaging.

TOR works great for what it was meant for. But calling it a 'secure' connection is misleading.