On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brian Baquiran <[email protected]>wrote:

> We've all heard the horror stories of clueless IT departments instructing
> their users to use Tor for "security".
>
> Tor only offers anonymity, provided you don't send any identifying
> information through it. Anyone can run a Tor node and sniff the data going
> through it. (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents/
> )
>

True.  If you send identifying information via unencrypted sessions, your
data can be recorded and read.  Use TOR + SSL if possible.


Holden
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