Tor and network security/administration
Todd Vierling
tv at pobox.com
Thu Jun 22 16:37:44 UTC 2006
On 6/22/06, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:
>
> > All of my discussions with Tor people have indicated [they] do not
> > think I should have the right to deny traffic based on IP address,
> > and that I should find other methods of authenticating traffic into
> > my networks.
>
> Isn't it rather that they think that filtering on the base of IP
> address is broken in today's Internet, even if tor didn't exist?
This has been part of my point throughout this thread, in that:
> substituting IP address for people is very, very, imprecise.
Tor just happens to point this out very vividly, and makes the
formerly small distinction between social and technological problems a
bit moer noticeable.
Anti-spam folk face a lot of the same issues. Ideally, there should
be zero need for content-based mail filtering, because that doesn't
reflect the intent of blocking spam (which is *really* based on
"solicited" status). However, the *social* issues of today's spam
abuse often make content-based filtering a necessary evil.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com> <todd at vierling.name>
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