[arrakistor at gmail.com: Wikipedia & Tor]

[Tyler Durden]

What's the problem here? The Wikipedia guy sees lots of garbage coming out 
of IP address set {X} so he blocks said address set. Somewhat regrettable 
but no suprise, is it?

On the other hand, doesn't it seem a little -odd- that the Tor network is 
already being "used" in this way? Granted, even I the great Tyler Durden was 
able to get a Tor client up-and-running, but I find it suspicious that this 
early wave of Tor users also happen to have a high % of vandals...something 
stinks.

A very subtle attack, perhaps? If I were so-and-so, I consider it a real 
coup to stop the kinds of legitimate Wikipedia entries that might be made 
from Tor users. And if this is the case, you can bet that there are other 
"obvious" targets that have been hammered through Tor.

In other words, someone said, "Two can play at this game."

-TD



>From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy at rant-central.com>
>To: cypherpunks at jfet.org
>Subject: Re: [arrakistor at gmail.com: Wikipedia & Tor]
>Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:02:09 -0400
>
>Quoting Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>:
>
> > ----- Forwarded message from Arrakis Tor <arrakistor at gmail.com> -----
>
> > This is a conversation with Jimmy Wales regarding how we can get
> > Wikipedia to let Tor get through.
>
> > I completely fail to comprehend why Tor server operators consistently
> > refuse to take responsibility for their crazed users.
>
>On one hand, this shows a deep misunderstanding of Tor and its purposes. On 
>the
>other, I remain disappointed in the number of vandals that take advantage 
>of
>Tor and other anonymizing services. On the gripping hand, perhaps the Wiki
>philosophy is flawed.
>--
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