On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 16:25 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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From: Mike Hearn <hearn@google.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:43 +0200 To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone? Reply-To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org <snip> So I'm afraid we don't have a good solution for people who want to sign up to Google anonymously today beyond buying accounts and getting unlinkability that way, but as I said, that's against our terms of service and can easily be confused with abuse so it's somewhat dangerous.

thanks -mike

This implies a pretty easy business model: * rent botnet proxies at some cost * make google accounts over botnets, farming the captchas out at some other cost * sell google accounts for bitcoins at cost + other cost + profit margin over a tor hidden service * profit You could probably do the account creation on-demand so you had no inventory buildup, even. If you started getting lots of demand, you could start pre-registering accounts. This one's a freebie for anyone on this list with more time than me. Since I have a Google account, I'd like to say that I will never do this, as it would be against Google's ToS and as such, criminally illegal (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lori_Drew>). Also, nobody else should do this. That would be illegal and therefore wrong. /fingerwag -- Sent from Ubuntu [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]