On 1/10/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
What about people (like me, but I really don't care about myself) who run open proxies on their home computer? They can be permabanned?
You're running an *open* proxy? Open proxies are typically used for DDOS attack and suchlike. It's a really unwise idea to run an open proxy. I'm surprised that you haven't already been blacklisted by a number of those DNS database things.
Chris
Yes, I'm running an open proxy, specifically a proxy which anonymizes http connections. See http://tor.eff.org/. It's not useful for DDOS attacks, really, as the one I run only forwards well-formed port 80 traffic at the same rate as you send it in (and even then, tor is kind of slow). And the vast majority of blacklists are smart enough not to list proxies which don't forward SMTP. That said, I use gmail for my email anyway, so if I am blacklisted I probably wouldn't even know it.
The fact that Wikipedia would block someone's *user account* because they have at one point run such a proxy makes pretty much zero sense.
Anthony