[WikiEN-l] anonymous proxies

Sunir Shah sunir at sunir.org
Tue Feb 17 19:18:11 UTC 2004


Ed Poor writes,

> But they'd be better off e-mailing a trusted friend on the outside and
> having their /friend/ post their contributions on their behalf. I have
> no doubt that even the anonymizing proxies can be backtraced, if some
> "intelligence service" really wants to make the effort.

It's "likely" (*) that certain oppressive countries 
maintain anonymous proxies just to see what people do
with them. I would never trust an anonymous proxy with
anything serious.

    (*) for extreme values of "likely"

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