On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:13 +0000 James Brown <jbrownfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another > anonymous proxy!!! I think the answer here is more complex. I've used tor's paypal-based donation account through Tor without issue for years. Possibly, Paypal has a bot detection program looking for many users logging in from the same IP address. This is similar to what Google, Yahoo, and others have done. If you happen to exit from a popular exit node, Paypal flags you as potentially compromised. I've attempted to have conversations with Paypal to no avail. Getting an actual human to talk to you with a clue about their security measures is incredibly difficult. Just try asking them for their SSL fingerprint because you're worried about phishing. When I tried, I was sent to their abuse dept who were thoroughly unhappy I was asking "suspicious questions about ssl". -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/