Re Tor spam: It's pure targeted FUD - the subject line said "things you
do are being watched." The body said, "Everyone who is doing file
trading is at risk. The news is full of articles of lawsuits by the
RIAA. Tor protects your online identity. Get this software now and stay
safe. Download Tor."
The link that said "Download Tor" was really a link to an IP address,
most probably to load malware on the unwary user's system.
Clearly the message was spam, but it raised the question: Is Tor
something for users to even consider?
Tnx for the reply,
-Andy
mike wrote:
TOR is an acronym for the onion router. In a nutshell it uses multiple
routers to hide the originating IP address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29 wiki entry.
Onion routers are fairly slow.
Not sure why anyone would send spam about TOR, doesn't make much sense.
Mike
On 9/6/07, Andy Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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