Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/24/2013 12:39 PM, Chris Patti wrote: I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack someone else's Gmail account :\ Dunno how I could get around this other than by blocking port 80, which is kind of the point :) How exactly does their hijacking attempt implicate

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Chris Patti
I understood the legal implications. See my above note about the abuse report from Linode. I'm not complaining, just noting that it's unfortunate that folks have to abuse things. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Roman Mamedov r...@romanrm.ru wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:39:31 -0400 Chris

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Ritter
On 24 May 2013 15:36, Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I understood the legal implications. See my above note about the abuse report from Linode. I'm not complaining, just noting that it's unfortunate that folks have to abuse things. In my opinion the tragedy here is not that people

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Alex
So do companies. Your ISP was apparently unhappy with the exit node you had and looked quite far for something to shut it off. Feel free to change the former exit node to a relay. Gesendet mit AquaMail für Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Am 24. Mai 2013 21:36:53 schrieb Chris Patti

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Griffin Boyce
Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I understood the legal implications. See my above note about the abuse report from Linode. I'm not complaining, just noting that it's unfortunate that folks have to abuse things. Agreed. People are jerks sometimes. =/ If someone is noticing a trend

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Nathan Suchy
You could block port 443 for SSL On May 24, 2013 2:26 PM, Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack someone else's Gmail account :\ Dunno how I could get around this other than by blocking port 80, which is kind of the point

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:04:49PM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: If someone is noticing a trend where their exit is consistently doing specific thing, it may be possible to end that abuse with creative use of iptables. Kind of surprised that Linode allowed a tor node to run in the first

Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread krishna e bera
On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:39:31 -0400 Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack someone else's Gmail account :\ If someone's Gmail account was hijacked, they must have had a weak or compromised password. This has nothing to do