The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

Michael Scheinost michael at scheinost.org
Tue Aug 24 10:09:35 UTC 2010


On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> I am a newbie here.  Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your
> connection through Tor?  I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off

No, it's not an overkill since tor does not provide end-to-end
encryption, but anonymity on the level of IP addresses. Actually it is
highly recommended to use tor with ssl secured services:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#CanexitnodeseavesdroponcommunicationsIsntthatbad

michael
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