[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits on OpenStreetMap through Tor
Paul Houle
paul at ontology2.com
Thu Oct 7 14:38:25 BST 2010
On 10/6/2010 6:19 PM, Brendan Morley wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Quite a few systems block users that come from the Tor network,
particularly Wikipedia. Tor is a popular method for vandals to not only
hide their IP address but to use multiple IP addresses to evade any
attempt to block their IP address. I've also come to understand that it
drives the FBI nuts when it turns out that Tor has been used in
connection with a crime.
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