Running what's effectively an anonymous open proxy is not a bright idea, even if there's security bundled on.. John Gilmore found that out after Verio disconnected his perpetual open relay for example .. and TOR is just as nutty a concept. Nothing less that I'd expect from the EFF, frankly speaking - but clued people (and you are clued, for sure) shouldnt be running it. There was that other fun when that swedish researcher was running a fake tor exit node and turned up lots of embassy passwords etc - mostly because embassy staffers found TOR a fun way to browse for porn, bypassing firewalls from their offices Uninstall it and forget about it, I'd say. --srs On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Randy Bush<randy@psg.com> wrote:
sadly, naively turning up tor to help folk who wish to be anonymous in hard times gets one a lot of assertive email from self-important people who wear formal clothes.
folk who learn this the hard way may find a pointer passed to me by smb helpful, <http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119>.
randy
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