The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on September 12, 2013, 03:57:28 PM
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Looks like we have a new source of spam bots aka 'guests' awaiting at the front door of our forum .
I've noticed in the last few days when I'm in admin mode 10-15 IP addresses that are wtihin a few numbers of each other .
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They might be bots, or it might be they are humans (or bots) using the Tor browser interface - it bounces your IP around the world to obfuscate your real IP/location. For some reason, Tor seems to have a preferences for coming out in northern Europe, and a bunch of these IPs seems to track back to Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden..
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I had to Google "Tor." Now that's interesting. I wonder if their are more volunteers in the areas you mentioned. I see they have an Android ap version, I may get that. I wonder how much it slows down web page loading.
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Tor is/was all the rage last year for folks who really want to protect their privacy, for both legal and illegal purposes. It is/was also heavily used by people in certain middle east nations with strict internet policing to get around various blockages and to prevent their own governments from tracking them down, or outside people from getting in. Now that it is more commonly known, I expect that the blackhat hackers are moving on to other similar, but different infrastructures. But the whitehats and anyone who wishes to reduce their network serveillance by big government and/or big business can use Tor. The downside is that it generally DOES slow down things a bit, and certain types of web-media plug-ins may not work so well. The price to pay for internet anonymity! Of couse, like everything else, the NSA does have the computing power to back track you even through Tor, but Amazon, Facebook, etc do not. Yet.