Sometime within the last few weeks I witnessed a user's gmail account becoming locked due to use of Tor via their 'strange location' 'hijack detection' mechanism. After going through the 'reset' process as directed by gmail, they were unable to reset and instructed [1] to wait about a weeks timeout before trying again. Gmail's knowledge base on the matter made specific reference to 'Tor' and anonymizing proxies.
So just take note that if using Gmail and Tor, you may encounter this situation. I have not yet. Nor have I heard that user's subsequent timeout outcome. [1] Perhaps, and likely, entirely due to said user's refusal to supply any secondary / out of band authentication forms such as: secondary email address, OpenID, or their phone number. Their username and password were still intact and known, and they always use https. Personally I think Gmail needs to bury a "leave us anons and corporate VPN'ers alone with this business about 'protecting us'" option somewhere in their config, or just notice Tor/VPN/Proxy and do it by default. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk