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Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration
From: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists" <lists () infosecurity ch>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:44:44 +0200
Regarding the high-performance scanning trough proxy, including and especially Tor, did you considered the ethical aspects of such implementation? Up to now there are no point'n'click high-performance ports canning tool to work well behind Tor, this means that the Tor network abuse for ports canning exists, but it's not yet a major problem for Tor Exit Node operators. Whenever nmap will support scanning trough Tor with high-performance and high-accuracy, we will see a strong increase in amount of abuses of the Tor network. This will lead to problems to Tor Exit Node operators that on a volunteer basis support the Tor anonymity network. I'd suggest to keep the patch for scanning trough Tor, off nmap official software releases. I know it's a controversial topic, but consider the possible impact it will have on a public, free, volunteer run Tor network. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists (Jul 14)
- Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Gioacchino Mazzurco (Jul 14)
- Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Jacek Wielemborek (Jul 14)
- Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Daniel Miller (Jul 14)
- Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Fyodor (Jul 16)
- Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists (Jul 17)