[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

Wed Jan 11 09:21:19 UTC 2006

"Anthony DiPierro" <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote 
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On 1/10/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> 
wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
[snip]
> > You're running an *open* proxy? Open proxies are typically used for DDOS
> > attack and suchlike. It's a really unwise idea to run an open proxy. I'm
> > surprised that you haven't already been blacklisted by a number of those
> > DNS database things.
> Yes, I'm running an open proxy, specifically a proxy which anonymizes
> http connections.  See http://tor.eff.org/.

That's not an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_proxy, that's an 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Router which is an entirely different 
beast.

> The fact that Wikipedia would block someone's *user account* because
> they have at one point run such a proxy makes pretty much zero sense.

An Onion Router, yes. An Open Proxy: nuke them until they glow and then blow 
them away in the dark.

An Open Proxy is what those viruses and worms are trying to make your 
machine into: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 