Mike Hearn: > We blacklist SMS/voice forwarding services when we find them and > re-suspend the accounts that used them. We haven't focused on it much > so there are certainly services we haven't blacklisted yet. > > Generally, using these services is dangerous. If spammers have used > the same numbers you get allocated to bypass verification, you can be > treated as part of the cluster and have your account terminated > without appeal. > > I don't see the distinction between "pay somebody to create an account > for you" and "buy an account". Both types of activity are likely to > hit various tripwires that will result in forced phone verification of > the account later on. Bear in mind it's not just at signup. If we > suspect an account is being used abusively then the account can be > locked until you pass SMS too. > > Right now I don't believe there is any safe way to use Google accounts > via Tor if you aren't willing to provide a phone number, nor do I > believe it's safe for any other large web service. Handling abuse > whilst allowing discardable identities is a fundamental research > problem the Tor team need to solve if they don't want Tor to be > restricted to a "read only" internet (to use Greg Maxwells phrasing). > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >
Thanks for the frank and upfront information Mike. It's refreshing :) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
