[tor-talk] Unsafe for Tor?

Marlon sgaecensura at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 12:21:19 UTC 2012


That's right.

You can connect a week from USA and two days later from France. But you
can't connect to your bank from USA and 20 minutes later, connect from
France. I supoose thats a big red flag in their security sistems, and that
makes sense.

2012/2/9 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:49:24PM +0100, Marco Predicatori wrote:
> > bao song, on 02/09/2012 11:59 AM, wrote:
> >
> > > my Internet banking had been disabled because I seemed to be
> > > logging in from different countries, and their new and improved
> > > policy to keep me safe is to only allow local access.
> >
> > Could make sense, but how would they serve frequent travellers?
>
> By using algorithms which model usual traffic patterns. Most people
> typically don't travel megameters/second every few minutes.
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