On Jun 21, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:02:47PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
If the point of the technology is to add a degree of anonymity, you can be pretty sure that a marker expressly designed to state the message "Hi, I'm anonymous!" will never be a standard feature of said technology. That's a pretty obvious non-starter.
Which begs the original question of this thread which I started: with that said, how exactly does one filter this technology?
Why bother? If the traffic is abusive, why do you care it comes from Tor? If there's a pattern of abusive traffic from a few hundred IP addresses, block those addresses. If you're particularly prone to idiots from Tor (IRC, say) then preemptively blocking them might be nice, but I doubt the number of new Tor nodes increases at a fast enough rate for it to be terribly interesting. If you want to take legal action you know exactly who is responsible for the traffic, so whether it's coming from a Tor exit node or not isn't terribly interesting in that case either. If you still do want to then there are some very obvious ways to do so, combining a Tor client and a server you run. (And this is from the perspective of someone who does not believe there is any legitimate use for Tor at all.) Cheers, Steve