On 9/7/07, Armed Blowfish
<diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
And no, Thomas, packet sniffing is not hard. It
does, however, require an opportune position
on the network.
...Which tor gives to any fool who wants to enable the exit node
functionality of the tor software on his system...
(In other words if you are you ever *view* Wikipedia via tor and you
happen to be logged in your identity will be available for free use by
whatever unknown random person runs the exit that you are randomly
routed to. If you're an admin you might find yourself replacing the
mainpage with goatse...)
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Unless you are editing through the SSL version. I've started doing that
even though I don't use proxies, I don't think it's a bad idea for
admins (at least) to use it. I've noticed very little difference in
speed, certainly not enough to be bothersome.