[tor-bugs] #7706 [Tor]: Excluded Tor nodes are still being used by hiding or altering their "Country" location field

Tue Dec 11 20:49:54 UTC 2012

#7706: Excluded Tor nodes are still being used by hiding or altering their
"Country" location field
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 Reporter:  bugcatcher                                        |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                                            |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major                                             |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                                               |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.6-alpha
 Keywords:  GeoIP, relay, security, vulnerability tor-client  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                                    |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 I wonder if the new default behavior should be to consider all ?? nodes as
 excluded whenever any country is excluded. The current behavior could
 confuse people.  We'd want a way to turn it off, though.

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