Wikipedia & Tor

[Matt Thorne]

everyone is so worried about it, but has any one ever been successfully been
able to use tor to effectively spam anyone?

On 9/27/05, Arrakis Tor <arrakistor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a further text with Jimmy
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> > If we start to use code to monitor what websites people are visiting,
> > in order to block them or whatnot, this might be a violation on Tor's
> > principle.
>
> Is spam a principle of Tor? Is damage to volunteer efforts a principle
> of Tor?
>
> > I do not think trusted or newbie Tor clients will ever be implemented,
> > as it is important that we do not know who is using our servers so we
> > cannot disclose it to those who would abuse the information.
>
>
> end user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> trusted user tor cloud
> -> wikipedia
>
> end user -> tor cloud -> authentication server -> untrusted user tor
> cloud -> no wikipedia
>
> Simple.
>
> > I'll definitely speak with the developers and see what we can come up
> > with. There may be a type of security protocol that I am unaware of
> > that might work. I'm certainly not interested in helping people
> > vandalize. My specific hope is I'm helping a Chinese dissident who
> > would otherwise be arrested for saying or observing ideas online.
>
> Mine too. But the current design of Tor makes this impossible -- people
> will block Tor because it is abusive. So your Chinese dissident will
> not be able to use Tor to edit Wikipedia, because the Chinese spammer
> has ruined it.
>
> --Jimbo
>
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