"Anthony DiPierro" wikilegal@inbox.org wrote in message news:71cd4dd90601101110n590dc1c4j45a6d17d6a112da8@mail.gmail.com... On 1/10/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
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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.
Yes, I'm running an open proxy, specifically a proxy which anonymizes http connections. See http://tor.eff.org/.
That's not an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_proxy, that's an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Router which is an entirely different beast.
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.
An Onion Router, yes. An Open Proxy: nuke them until they glow and then blow them away in the dark.
An Open Proxy is what those viruses and worms are trying to make your machine into: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet.
HTH HAND