After seing these posts I went ahead & tried to register w/o Tor & find the same errors (& many more red-herring errors from poor validation javascript on the registration page) - The only things I have that might be interfering with the process are request policy, which blocks all cross-domain requests on a page, and which I opened up for the GMX registration page, and a hosts file with loopbacks for most annoying ad services, which I also temporarily removed. Nothing doing - after 5 attempts I still get the same validation error: "1. Your registration could not be processed at the moment. Please try again later. If the error persists, please contact us." Seems like bad architecture, sloppy validation, or a combination of th two at work here more than actual security...
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 7/31/2012 7:26 PM, jed c wrote: >> This is a wacky idea. No harm in trying though. How about trying something >> like hidemyass through tor? I know it doesnt really provide anonymity, but >> maybe it will mask your location long enough to open an account. If you can >> open the account then reset your password after setup. > Thanks, it's an idea. Don't know that web proxies use different addresses > for different users, anymore than Tor does. Worth a shot. > > In their auto response that said the "we can't process your request right > now" error being from many users sharing one address, they used example of an > office or organization that uses one address for whole network. I know they > & other providers are trying to prevent spammers, fraud, etc. I'm none of > those, but they don't know me from Adam, even if I tell them I'm using Tor. > > A lot of sites & services don't like Tor users because they can't tell if you > like privacy / anonymity or are up to no good. I guess GMX has caught up w/ > Gmail & others, making it hard to create accts using Tor. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
