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Re: Anonymity via Tor?
From: krymson () gmail com
Date: 18 Apr 2007 14:35:09 -0000
First, I know a certain other thread might have people on edge and a bit combative, but we don't need to spout things like "you entirely failed to understand the purpose of..." Come on, people...pretend we're in a bar sharing a pint instead of at a debate table... Second, neither of us are entirely correct or entirely wrong about Tor. I was wrong to limit the purpose of Tor, and you are correct that it protects against eavesdroppers as one of its purposes. Feel free to read the Tor webpage for their purpose (http://tor.eff.org/). It is meant to keep, for instance, a web browser client anonymous to the target web server. The *is* making one participant anonymous to another. Feel free to load up Tor and connect your browser to a website whose logs you control and tell me if you seem anonymous to your web browser or not... More information and links can be found here: http://www.onion-router.net/ if you want to read further.
On 2007-04-16 krymson () gmail com wrote:Of course, I would never actually suggest anyone purposelyroute theirhighly sensitive web connections through another service or server when possible, especially Tor or a web proxy. Web proxies (and Tor) don't and really aren't meant to protect information (even though you can try to). Their purpose isjust to bemore anonymous from the point of view of the target web server.You entirely failed to understand the purpose of TOR. Onion routing is meant to hide the participants in a communication from eavesdroppers. It is *not* meant to make one participant in a communication anonymous to the other. Regards Ansgar Wiechers
Current thread:
- Re: Anonymity via Tor?, (continued)
- 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)