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Re: more letters from the feds



Seth David Schoen writes:

> Anthony DiPierro writes:
> 
> > Or what about a hidden service for reading web pages in general?
> > Something which doesn't support POST (or maybe even GET), so is much
> > less likely to be used abusively.  Is this feasible?
> 
> The current directory scheme does allow (in fact, requires) policies
> to be specified in terms of IP addresses and TCP port numbers.  So
> a "web browsing only" exit node is possible.

Though not really, because the set of servers listening on TCP port 80
is neither a subset nor a superset of the set of web servers.

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Seth Schoen
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