Tor and network security/administration

Todd Vierling tv at pobox.com
Wed Jun 21 21:08:43 UTC 2006


On 6/21/06, Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:
>
> Failing that, having an exit node look at HTTP headers back from the
> server that contained a "X-No-Anonymous" header to say that the host
> at that IP shouldn't allow Tor to use it would work.

What's to stop one or more exit node operators from hacking such a
check right back out of the code?

This is a better idea, but still has a bit of defeats-the-whole-point
to it, as it would depend on people obeying that header voluntarily.
Social vs. technological divide, again.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com> <todd at vierling.name>



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