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Re: Tor and network security/administration


From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel () mamane lu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:21:57 +0200


On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:53:06PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:02:47PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:

If the point of the technology is to add a degree of anonymity, you
can be pretty sure that a marker expressly designed to state the
message "Hi, I'm anonymous!" will never be a standard feature of
said technology.  That's a pretty obvious non-starter.

Which begs the original question of this thread which I started:
with that said, how exactly does one filter this technology?

The list of IP addresses of tor nodes is *public*. If tor users can
get it, you can, too. Some IRC networks already run a stripped-down
tor client to always tag connections from tor as such, and permit
channel operators to ban such connections from their channel should
they wish so.

-- 
Lionel


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