[tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Fri May 24 19:07:03 UTC 2013


On 5/24/2013 12:39 PM, Chris Patti wrote:
> I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack
> someone else's Gmail account :\
>
> Dunno how I could get around this other than by blocking port 80, which is
> kind of the point :)
>
How exactly does their hijacking attempt implicate your relay?  At 
least, to shut it down entirely?  I'm just asking.

If they used any other anonymous proxy, the hijacker's activities are 
his own - yes / no ?  I'm sure people hijack gmail accts all the time 
w/o using Tor.


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