Re: Anonymity via Tor?

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2007-04-16 krymson () gmail com wrote:
> Of course, I would never actually suggest anyone purposely route their
> highly 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 is just to be
> more 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
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