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Lost gmail mails .. evil tor exit node?



Hi all tor gurus,

From some time ago I am losing some gmail mails (sent or probably also when receiving, via socksified Thunderbird (delete mesasges from server), ssl to pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com) .

I'm testing this on OpenBSD 4.4 -current, tor v0.2.1.1-alpha (r15195), dsocks and Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

That's intriguing me.

I have set my tor client torrc enabling AllowInvalidNodes entry,middle,introduction,rendezvous, as I think this is the way we have to go for a global tor network privacy/security, as I don't trust (till some one convinces me otherwise) the "valid nodes" validators, that may be more easily compromised by big brother-s. (As adversary, I prefer a wild mix of tor exit nodes (sane or compromised mix ones) than only "valid" exit nodes, for sure compromised by big-bro)

Of course, non valid exit nodes may be bad-boys, I know, but as I am on ssl to gmail, it should be ok?

Maybe it's only a gmail spam-etc filtering and destroying system for some specific (chinese?) tor exit chains, as I think gmail (google) is knees-down to china gov (and others) and favors china's orwellian censorship.

BUT, I have read somewhere that bad exit nodes can revert your call to ssl gmail to plain http gmail after thet first gmail ssl login (gmail seems to allow this) ...

On Firefox3, there is an addons (Better Gmail2) that "forces" full ssl connection to gmail, so this means that gmail, after its first ssl login, can eventually allow non-ssl gmail browsing. (It happened to me some times before I installed this extension on FF3).

Does any of you has similar suspicious behaviors or more information about this?

Any light on this is welcome!

Thanks!

Mac.