-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > this is extremely interesting--thank you! but would this work for Tor, > since presumably the IPs that are blocked are those of the exit relays? > > I am proposing keeping the IPs blocked but opening them up for certain > logged-in accounts--I don't know if that is technically possible, but it > seems like a narrower solution, and also theoretically less open to > abuse/spoofing than unblocking entire IP addresses. (maybe.)
I think you may have misunderstood. An IP Block Exemption is a flag applied to a specific account that allows it to ignore IP blocks. There are two types of blocks that we use for IP addresses, hard blocks and soft blocks. A hard block means that if you are using that IP address you cannot edit Wikipedia. A soft block means that if you are using that IP address, you can edit Wikipedia, but only if logged in, and you cannot make an account. Many highschools are soft-blocked. All of Tor is hard- blocked. Having the IPBE flag on your account allows you to treat all hard-blocks as though they are soft-blocks. Did that explain it any better? Thank you, Derric Atzrott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFULFsORHoDdZBwKDgRAhRPAJ4q+f6M9/KkZ1YvRjJ8hVXJI/a3QACeNCI6 13cqgBU6HIW2jwrKNTti0Yk= =PMxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
