On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Olaf Selke wrote: > Florian Reitmeir wrote: > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Olaf Selke wrote: > >>today I found the tor network status update script for my TNS site > >>http://torstatus.blutmagie.de broken. The Perl code feeding the > >>underlying MySQL db relies on a unique router name for the tor server > >>being queried. Since some hours besides my own tor node there's listed a > >>second tor node in China named "blutmagie" in the descriptor table. It > >>appears to be using a Chinese dialup address. Oops! > >> > >>Fixing the TNS Perl code was not very hard, but what may be the reason > >>some idiot in China choses the same router name like me? > >because there is no trademark on router names?
> personally I don't care very much about someone else using my router > name, but there seems to be some motivation to do so. Would you label > your router in a foreign language you probably don't understand? maybe if i see a "big" host, and i have the ability to name mine route the same, i think i would try it. just to see what happens. > On December 22nd police contacted me regarding an incident in Macao. > Someone threatened Chinese authorities using my exit gw. Compared with > other police inquiries against me this time I had the feeling they > really got pressure from Berlin. but the police got your name because of your ip address, not because of your tor-router-name? and there are really many chinese people out there. -- Florian Reitmeir
