[arma at mit.edu: Re: Wikipedia & Tor]

[Roy M. Silvernail]

Quoting Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com>:

> One way to build a psuedo-pseudonymous mechanism to hang off of Tor
> that would be easy for the Wikipedians to deal with
> would be to have a server that lets you connect to it using Tor,
> log in using some authentication protocol or other,
> then have it generate different outgoing addresses based on your ID.
> So user #37 gets to initiate connections from 10.0.0.37,
>    user #258 gets to initiate connections from 10.0.1.2, etc.

The problem I see with this is that it continues to train Wikipedia to use IP
addresses as credentials.  That's a Bad Thing IMHO.
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