Salut,
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 00:21 -0400, Jason Areff wrote:
> It has come to our attention that the majority of tor users are not
> actually from china but are rather malicious hackers that (ab)use it
> to keep their anonymity.
At this point, I would like to ask you not to use this tool in the wild.
There is a whole lot of legitimate Tor users out there, and there are
enough reasons to use Tor for purposes other than splatting other
machines. For example (those applicable to me):
* When I'm in the European Parliament, Tor is one of the only methods
other than a VPN on port 80 to actually get traffic in and out. This
again is helpful to have live communication of decisions/debates and
to interact in a sensible way.
* When I'm in the European Union, I don't want to be a suspected
terrorist because I talk to my friends in Pakistan, Israel, Brazil,
Honduras, Cuba etc. (about the latest NetBSD development etc. by the
way)
* Some of my security research usually gets me on the black lists of
some federal police blah etc. because they consider everyone
searching for that a terrorist. Yet I do it mostly to be up to date
on certain developments in terms of security.
There are many more reasons which I also wrote a number of articles
about in various magazines and on various websites. There are a couple
of abusers of Tor, for sure. But by blocking them, you are also
preventing us from making legal use of this nice tool. And it really is
a nice tool.
Another thing to consider is:
Most of the attacks on your server are coming from the Internet, just
like a lot of SPAM, port scans, etc. There is little legitimate traffic,
as opposed to the local network where a lot of employees and backup
servers etc. are doing their work and nearly 80% of the traffic are
actually legitimate. Why not block the Internet then? Most of the time
you don't get the bastard spamass anyway.
Tonnerre
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