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scooby6691@hotmail.com wrote:
From: scooby6691@hotmail.com
Subject: Tor is NOT is private as you think it is. This is NO
BULLSHIT!!!!!!
Date: 18 Jan 2007 04:50:22 -0800
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This is NO joke. As my listeners well know by now, I got
into a
rather nasty feud with Figure Skating Universe (FSU), a couple of
months ago, and did get banned. I tried to sneak back on, for the
remainder of the season, using Tor, to mask my IP address, and
tried to
re-subscribe using one of these "throwaway" prepaid Mastercards
you can
purchase at your local corner drugstore. It actually took a
couple of
tries before FSU would let me register a screen name without
being
banned. "MrSpit" and "LiberalTalkHost" were banned in one case,
and had
the application manually rejected by the admins on the other
case, but
the third try, "Scooby" was allowed, until I tried to re-
subscribe,
that is when I got banned (again). "MrSpit" was the on-air name
of a
rather raunch shock jock on the East Coast in the early 90s, and
"LiberalTalkHost", I chose on one attempt becuase I do have my
own
radio talk show that leans liberal on many issues.
Lo and behold, I go to log this morning, and find that
account was
banned. The only POSSIBLE way that FSU could have known WHO it
was,
would have been to crack Tor. Prepaid Mastercards are designed
so that
you purchase it, use it until the credit on it is used up, then
you cut
it up and throw it in the rubbish bin. The way that PayPal
works, only
PayPal is supposed to have the card numbers, and then ONLY long
enough
for the transaction to go through, and then PayPal usually
destroys the
infornation. That is why PayPal is considered one of them safest
payment methods on Earth.
It would appear that both Tor, and prepaid Mastercards, and
NOT as
anonymous as you might think they are. Either Tor, MasterCard, or
Rite-Aid (where I purhcased that prepaid Mastercard) would had
to have
been cracked in order FSU to know it was me. the only POSSIBLE
way that
they could have know that it was ME, who tried to resubscribe,
was to
have cracked Tor. There is no other POSSIBLE way they could have
known.
The lesson here is that Tor is NOT as anonymous as you
think it
is. It CAN be cracked, and I think that is how Figure Skating
Universe
figured out it was me.
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