some alternatives that dont require blocking Tor: - authenticate new members by non-electronic means - disallow posting of links by new members - moderate content
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:10:28AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: > (Forwarded with permission) > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Posting of links to inappropriate sites on children's website > via Tor > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:44:26 -0400 > From: Amos Blanton <a...@scratch.mit.edu> > To: ab...@torservers.net > > Greetings, > > I help manage the community on the Scratch website. Scratch is a > programming language for kids developed and provided for free by an > educational research group at MIT. You can check it out here: > > http://scratch.mit.edu/ > > There is a teenager in New York who has decided to create new accounts > to post links to trolling sites like lemmonparty.org > <http://lemmonparty.org> etc. on the Scratch website, which allows kids > to share projects and comments. It being a site for kids ages 8 and up, > that's not good. :( > > This is the node that was most recently used: > http://173.244.197.210/ > > I think we can find the originating IP from our records, if that would help. > > In the past this person created accounts to post links in our forums > using free web proxies, and now they're moving on to posting them in > comments via TOR. I guess we'll have to block new accounts from TOR > nodes - but do you guys have any alternatives you can recommend? I > understand and accept your mission to support privacy, but unfortunately > I can't see any good alternatives to blocking Tor nodes right now. I > have read the FAQ, but I thought I'd see if you have any other ideas. > > Thanks very much for your time, > Amos Blanton > Scratch Team > > -- > _____ > Amos > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/