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Re: Anonymity via Tor?
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:48:27 +0200
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 -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
Current thread:
- Re: Anonymity via Tor?, (continued)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 16)
- 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)