[WikiEN-l] Packet sniffing, etc. (was Re: Follow-up on my Ban from Wikipedia (part 2))

[Todd Allen]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at 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.

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