[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor
Brendan Morley
morb.gis at beagle.com.au
Wed Oct 6 23:19:51 BST 2010
On 7/10/2010 7:57 AM, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> On 6 October 2010 22:46, Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com
> <mailto: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.
It will be good to check for sure. Certainly in my CommonMap project
it's a different story, I'm using Apache httpd as the web server. Out
of the box httpd logs IP addresses in the access_log. I think OSM is
also using Apache httpd now as well. It's likely that the sysadmins
would almost never use the logging results, but it could still be a
problem if, say, the hardware got seized for investigation.
Brendan
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