[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor

Emilie Laffray emilie.laffray at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 22:57:45 BST 2010


On 6 October 2010 22:46, Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is anyone contributing to OpenStreetMap by using Tor? (the onion router)
> Is there any opinion from anyone about this? Tor is used to strengthen
> ones privacy by the technology trying to prevent revealing the ip
> address of the user.
>

Since the project doesn't log IP Addresses as far as I can tell, there is no
privacy gain by using TOR.

Emilie Laffray
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