On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:49:04PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > In any case it is simply impossible to be completely anonymous on the > Internet, because packets must find some way to reach the client. The fact > that anonymising services do not keep logs of their users, makes tracing > significantly harder, but what if an anonymiser was hacked? The hacker > would make light work of identifying individual users. IMHO, nobody should > ever rely on being completely anonymous on the web. > The goal of Onion Routing is to prevent this. An attacker controlling an onion router would not be able to discern who was doing what. The anonymizer is a "hide the client from the server" solution. Onion Routing is a "hide the fact that the client and server are communicating" solution, including from individual onion routers. Onion Routing is a network, it isn't one site with the keys to everything. Read the stuff on http://www.onion-router.net/ for more info. Regards, Jeremey. -- Jeremey Barrett <jeremeyat_private> GPG fingerprint = 7BB2 E1F1 5559 3718 CE25 565A 8455 D60B 8FE8 B38F
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