And I imagine that means you were too nice to respond with "Can I please talk to someone who actually understands what I am talking about?"
Way back in the day when ISPs offered shell accounts, I noticed that ping was in sbin on solaris. So I made myself a ~/bin dir and made a sym link to ping (I know, a bit round about, but it made sense to me at the time). I thought nothing of it, and forgot all about it. One day, a year or so later, my account was locked and when I called, I was told it was because it looked like my "account had been hacked and someone enabled unauthorized access to the ping command". I just didn't even know how to respond to that other than thanking them and changing my password. Of course, this is the same service where I got a talk message from someone, and he started asking if I could help with his algebra homework. After going over some problems with him and explaining a bit, I was then asked if I needed another email address, as he was the head sysadmin. -Steve On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Lewman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:13 +0000 > James Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another >> anonymous proxy!!! > > I think the answer here is more complex. I've used tor's paypal-based > donation account through Tor without issue for years. Possibly, Paypal > has a bot detection program looking for many users logging in from the > same IP address. This is similar to what Google, Yahoo, and others have > done. If you happen to exit from a popular exit node, Paypal flags you > as potentially compromised. > > I've attempted to have conversations with Paypal to no avail. Getting > an actual human to talk to you with a clue about their security > measures is incredibly difficult. Just try asking them for their SSL > fingerprint because you're worried about phishing. When I tried, I was > sent to their abuse dept who were thoroughly unhappy I was asking > "suspicious questions about ssl". > > -- > Andrew Lewman > The Tor Project > pgp 0x31B0974B > +1-781-352-0568 > > Website: https://www.torproject.org/ > Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ > Identi.ca: torproject > Skype: lewmanator > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
