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RE: Anonymity via Tor?
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:24:24 -0700
Web proxies (and Tor) don't and really aren't meant to protect information (even though you can try to). Their purpose is just to be more anonymous from the point of view of the target web server.
^^^^^^ That's an important point to bear in mind. Trying to use any of these methods to get around policies of your *origin* network is unlikely to succeed for long. If your origin network has policies limiting your traffic, they will undoubtedly log your use of proxies even if they don't block them outright. David Gillett
Current thread:
- Re: Anonymity via Tor?, (continued)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Scan_it (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? phillip () cryptolife org (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Marcos Marado (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? GNU/Buanzo - mod_auth_openpgp (Apr 18)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Vincenzo Ciaglia (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Krymson (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 16)
- RE: Anonymity via Tor? Petter Bruland (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? krymson (Apr 16)
- RE: Anonymity via Tor? David Gillett (Apr 17)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Apr 17)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? krymson (Apr 18)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? kyle . bader (Apr 18)
- Re: Re: Anonymity via Tor? bardotherevolting (Apr 19)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 19)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Scan_it (Apr 15)