Question about the vulnerability

[nobledark at hushmail.com]

Roger, thank you for your response - I did follow that thread when 
it came out and upgraded my systems. The question I have is not 
really about the vulnerability but more of a general operational 
one - in what situations is the control port actually used? If I am 
not running a Tor server but using Tor in client mode, does the 
Control Port get used? What is it used for? 

Thanks again for the great software....looking to do more with it 
soon.

 -Nd

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:33:22 -0400 Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> 
wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:21:31PM -0400, nobledark at hushmail.com 
>wrote:
>> Forgive my ignorance, but when exactly does the Control Port 
>come 
>> into play? Is a Tor user who simply uses Tor in client mode 
>> vulnerable? I've seen the Control Port info in the man pages but 
>
>> that doesn't really answer my question - can anyone advise?
>
>Read http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Aug-2007/msg00034.html for 
>the
>answer. We do promise to explain it better once more people have 
>had a
>chance to upgrade. :)
>
>Hope that helps,
>--Roger

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