Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 28, 2006 01:21 AM
as it was stated before me: problem is not with Tor but with the idea that anonymous posts can be controlled. I can bring up so many different reasons to why Tor is perfectly legit and you have all same problems _without_ Tor. There are ISPs (and not only them) that give away RFC1918 IPs that executing IP blocks are futile as it appears that whole traffic comes through one place. Banning public proxies is not a solution either because there are millions of reasons to use them for legitimate activity.
To sum it up: innocent age of internet is long over. Get used to the fact that as soon as you serve services that allow "anonymous" abuse - you'll be hit by it. All services with the potential to be abused should be available only to registered users PERIOD. Blaming Tor is not going to help.
I do use Tor occasionally and I must say that using it all the time is painful due to drop in speed, but I do use it and consider it to be a good thing. I am a sysadmin myself and I'm well aware of all the dangers that anonymity brings but you agreed to them running your services wide open, so learn to live with it or fix your services - Tor does nothing wrong or illegal.
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Re:A flawed attack
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 28, 2006 01:21 AMTo sum it up: innocent age of internet is long over. Get used to the fact that as soon as you serve services that allow "anonymous" abuse - you'll be hit by it. All services with the potential to be abused should be available only to registered users PERIOD. Blaming Tor is not going to help.
I do use Tor occasionally and I must say that using it all the time is painful due to drop in speed, but I do use it and consider it to be a good thing. I am a sysadmin myself and I'm well aware of all the dangers that anonymity brings but you agreed to them running your services wide open, so learn to live with it or fix your services - Tor does nothing wrong or illegal.
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