On 6/16/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 6/16/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
We clearly don't have a policy of blocking everyone who's found to have arrived at Wikipedia via a Tor IP at some point.
The IPs are blocked.
So are AOL IPs. Is there also a policy of blocking anyone who has ever used AOL?
It's not quite the same thing. It's usually possible to work out a person's location from AOL, and even when it isn't, people in the same location tend to use the same range, and that helps to pin things down. With open proxies, the IPs could resolve to anywhere in the world.
If being able to identify admins is that important, we should consider if the OTRS show-the-foundation-your-ID should be extended to normal admins.
As I said earlier, that provides no security because anyone could fax a copy of a friend's ID instead. The only thing that tends to pin someone down is their IP address. There are ways around that, to be sure, for the technically savvy. But most people aren't.
Wouldn't you put someone using TOR to hide their IPs into the technically savvy group, though?
Not necessarily, no. I don't know how widespread knowledge of Tor is.