Re: suspicions Chinese node name piracy

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Olaf Selke wrote:

> today I found the tor network status update script for my TNS site 
> http://torstatus.blutmagie.de broken. The Perl code feeding the underlying 
> MySQL db relies on a unique router name for the tor server being queried. 
> Since some hours besides my own tor node there's listed a second tor node 
> in China named "blutmagie" in the descriptor table. It appears to be using 
> a Chinese dialup address. Oops!
> 
> Fixing the TNS Perl code was not very hard, but what may be the reason some 
> idiot in China choses the same router name like me?

because there is no trademark on router names?

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Florian Reitmeir