[tor-relays] Network Scan through Tor Exit Node (Port 80)

Chris Palmer chris at eff.org
Wed Mar 9 20:45:39 UTC 2011


On 03/09/2011 08:17 AM, mick wrote:

> And as Scott said, I don't see why EFF should place the operators
> of Tor nodes at risk by using Tor as a scanning tool. 

Again, do you understand what it is we are doing?

We are not doing a scan with Nmap set to "aggressive" or "stealthy" on
all ports.

We are saying hello on port 443, and then saying goodbye. Once. Using
normal TCP and TLS handshaking, no tricks. For the good of the internet.


-- 
Chris Palmer
Technology Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/code


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