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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor by praptak on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @06:38AM (#2045208)
Why would you even want to BadExit his nodes? Using Tor you're vulnerable anyway. Any exit node can snoop on your traffic or even change it.

Enumerating some bad nodes does not substantially improve this. The above can only be prevented by using something like SSL plus a trusted certificate on top of Tor.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor by marcinw on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @06:56AM (#2045239)
Right, and the people who are running malicious Tor exit nodes won't tell you that either. Good luck with that.
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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor by ahn on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @05:07PM (#2047013)
> Why would you even want to BadExit his nodes?

To further malign him of course.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor by mfukar on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @01:52PM (#2046323)
It's up to the Tor user to encrypt her end-to-end traffic. If that's what she wants.
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