[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor
Kevin Peat
kevin at kevinpeat.com
Thu Oct 7 10:54:08 BST 2010
Not sure about the security benefits of using Tor with OSM but I have messed
with it in the past and the performance can be pretty poor and probably not
great for an interactive Potlatch session. I've also read somewhere that
flash apps can easily give away your local IP even when using Tor.
Kevin
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.
>
> Regards,
> Niklas
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