Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:29:37PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul Syverson > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:03:53PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > >> To solve this issue I believe that TOR needs a strong pseudo-anonymous > >> system built in and a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Grant Heller
I view this as an example of "a few bad apples." FWIW I believe that it is perfectly acceptable for WP to require contributors who wish to use TOR to contact WP first. This may not prevent the most determined vandals from obtaining accounts but troll/abuser management is part of managing a site t

Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:03:53PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >> To solve this issue I believe that TOR needs a strong pseudo-anonymous >> system built in and available to users.  Something where Wikipedia can >> block a single misbehavi

Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:03:53PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > To solve this issue I believe that TOR needs a strong pseudo-anonymous > system built in and available to users. Something where Wikipedia can > block a single misbehaving user just as easily as they can without Tor > and that use

Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for bringing this up!         How sad for us all! > > I sure hope that the Tor community can quickly effect some sort of short > term solution. The precedent of destination sites restricting > Tor access - eve

Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Gregory Maxwell wrote: FYI— -- Forwarded message -- From: Brion Vibber Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:44 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings To: Wikimedia developers en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the for

Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings

2009-04-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
FYI— -- Forwarded message -- From: Brion Vibber Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:44 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings To: Wikimedia developers en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abus