Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 9/7/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@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.