hundreds of thousands of users
Roger Dingledine

Roger Dingledine commited on 2006-09-22 20:26:05
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@@ -261,14 +261,18 @@ coming from Tor nodes as "anonymous users," removing the ability of the
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 abusers to blend in, the abusers moved back to using their open proxies
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 and bot networks. </p>
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-<p>Second, consider that thousands of people use Tor every day simply for
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+<p>Second, consider that hundreds of thousands of people use Tor every
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+day simply for
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 good data hygiene &mdash; for example, to protect against data-gathering
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 advertising companies while going about their normal activities. Others
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 use Tor because it's their only way to get past restrictive local
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 firewalls. Some Tor users may be legitimately connecting
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 to your service right now to carry on normal activities. You need to
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 decide whether banning the Tor network is worth losing the contributions
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-of these users, as well as potential future legitimate users. </p>
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+of these users, as well as potential future legitimate users. (Often
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+people don't have a good measure of how many polite Tor users are
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+connecting to their service &mdash; you never notice them until there's
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+an impolite one.)</p>
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 <p>At this point, you should also ask yourself what you do about other
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 services that aggregate many users behind a few IP addresses. Tor is
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