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Message-ID: <acfe98190606031519p5ed4e01dgd051fc4c41b1ed8a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jun  3 23:19:24 2006
From: jaweeks at gmail.com (Jacob Weeks)
Subject: Tool Release - Tor Blocker

isn't there also a financial requirment before anyone (police, fbi,
... ) would actually investigate the incident?

see the ?, it's a question, not a statement.

On 6/3/06, Alexander Sotirov <asotirov@...ermina.com> wrote:
> The purpose of this module is not to increase the security of your server, but
> to allow you to prosecute hackers after the fact. If your server has a remotely
> exploitable vulnerability and you block Tor nodes, you can still be hacked from
> any other IP address on the Internet.
>
> The only difference is that blocking Tor force the attackers to use a
> non-anonymized IP address, which can (at least theoretically) be traced back to
> them. I have doubts that this really makes a difference in practice.
>
> Blacklisting IP addresses is no substitute for actually fixing the
> vulnerabilities on your servers.
>
> Alex
>
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