everyone is so worried about it, but has any one ever been successfully been able to use tor to effectively spam anyone?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arrakis Tor</b> <<a href="mailto:arrakistor@gmail.com">arrakistor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Here is a further text with Jimmy<br>-------------------------------------------------<br><br>> If we start to use code to monitor what websites people are visiting,
<br>> in order to block them or whatnot, this might be a violation on Tor's<br>> principle.<br><br>Is spam a principle of Tor? Is damage to volunteer efforts a principle<br>of Tor?<br><br>> I do not think trusted or newbie Tor clients will ever be implemented,
<br>> as it is important that we do not know who is using our servers so we<br>> cannot disclose it to those who would abuse the information.<br><br><br>end user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> trusted user tor cloud
<br>-> wikipedia<br><br>end user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> untrusted user tor<br>cloud -> no wikipedia<br><br>Simple.<br><br>> I'll definitely speak with the developers and see what we can come up
<br>> with. There may be a type of security protocol that I am unaware of<br>> that might work. I'm certainly not interested in helping people<br>> vandalize. My specific hope is I'm helping a Chinese dissident who
<br>> would otherwise be arrested for saying or observing ideas online.<br><br>Mine too. But the current design of Tor makes this impossible -- people<br>will block Tor because it is abusive. So your Chinese dissident will
<br>not be able to use Tor to edit Wikipedia, because the Chinese spammer<br>has ruined it.<br><br>--Jimbo<br></blockquote></div><br>