Re: Anonymity via Tor?

[krymson () gmail com]

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 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