Strange thing happened with Tor

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by Jim Verard, Dec 18, 2007.

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  1. Jim Verard

    Jim Verard Registered Member

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    A few minutes ago I tried to connect using Tor network, built inside XeroBank browser. I couldn't see what was the IP designed when this kind of thing happened, but while I was visiting Wilders, I clicked on three different links from different areas, and I was redirected to Lycos, Yahoo 404 page and other different site.

    I also tried to open http://www.formyip.com address and it was redirected to somehow a russian website? Or one page from Microsoft.

    And then, just to check this out, I typed cnn.com and was redirected to Google! Then I tried another address very famous and was redirected again. When I tried to made a search on this "Google" page, it didn't work, and another error page was sent to me.

    I never see this kind of error happening before. My firewall is blocking all possible attempts to make direct connections, not using localhost/127.0.0.1 and connecting through port 9050, so it's not possible that my browser sometime have made direct connections of any kind.

    Just for the record: all my cookies and cache were erased and the problem was still there.

    I tried to change my IP address, and the problem was the same. The IP address that I changed, this time I could verify and it was 195.10 (something like that), used many times by Tor (I know that because I checked what were the IPs most used in the past weeks).

    Then, I downloaded a new version from one of my extensions, and restarted the browser, and the problem was solved. But it's intriguing that this kind of thing happened. Anyone have a clue what could be the reason?
     
  2. Shunted

    Shunted Registered Member

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    Does the problem persist if you get a new chain? I have never tried XeroBank so I don't know how to do that, but waiting 10 minutes should do it if nothing else.

    Theory: Could be a malicious node.
     
  3. Jim Verard

    Jim Verard Registered Member

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    This is not happening again, and never happened before. That's why I was surprised.

    Perhaps it was a node not configured, but I never realize that such thing even exists. Did they ever check all the nodes? This was a yellow alert to me, because I always use Tor for everything, and I don't like they have any kinds of problems.
     
  4. Shunted

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    Of course "they" (Tor developers, or EFF?) don't check all the nodes, anyone can be one. Some are harvesting passwords sent in clear (like your password to Wilders), issuing fake SSL-certificates for pages they are interested in, and so forth. Yours might have been just a joke or something. Don't like CNN? Redirect it.

    Make sure the SSL certificates you accept are in fact issued by reputable C.A.-s or are known to you from before. And use common sense otherwise too, the exit node sees all your traffic. (If it's encrypted, they can not read it of course).
     
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