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Date: Wed Apr 12 00:04:59 2006
From: ian.t7 at hotmail.co.uk (Ian stuart Turnbull)
Subject: Shell accounts

Thanks for your answer.
Exactly the info I was hoping to get.

Ian t

>From: "Anthony Ettinger" <aettinger@...ualumni.org>
>To: "Ian stuart Turnbull" <ian.t7@...mail.co.uk>
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>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Shell accounts
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>simply having a shell account does in itself gaurantee anonymity.
>
>Whatever you read was probably talking about tunnelling. so you
>connected to target host via N number of hops (other shell accounts on
>different boxes). Doing a trace would require logs from N number of
>machines.
>
>This is more or less what the tor.eff.org network does, I believe with
>only 3 hops though + encryption between tor nodes. There are some
>give-aways though with tor, like DNS leakage which may or may not give
>you away.
>
>
>
>On 4/11/06, Ian stuart Turnbull <ian.t7@...mail.co.uk> wrote:
> > Sorry folks,
> > my inquisitiveness has got the better of me again.
> > After reading some info on hacking it refernces getting a Shell account.
> > Is this a unix type bash/bourne shell? It mentions that to remain 
>anonymous
> > you will need a Shell account. I know there are a number of places 
>offering
> > free shell accts some with an out to the internet others without.
> >
> > Suppose I had a friend who had a Linux connected to the internet and I 
>got
> > him to set me up a username. As long as his machine didn't do any 
>logging
> > [and he pretended not to know of anyone using this account] would I - 
>using
> > sssh to connect] be traceable.
> >
> > No I'm not planning on doing any hacking or causing mischief. Though I'd
> > love to know who's trying to get into my machine... but thats another
> > story!!
> >
> > Ian t
> >
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