Could i use tor to login Paypal?

[Shava Nerad]

At 01:02 PM 8/30/2006, Shava Nerad wrote:
>It seems unlikely it's because of your Tor use, but we'll look for 
>other anecdotes that might lead us to believe this to be the case.


Or, I could take 5 minutes and be proactive...:)  I just sent to 
paypal's contact us - protections/privacy/security/account privacy address:

>I'm the executive director of the Tor Project 
>(http://tor.eff.org).  We're getting reports that some people who 
>use Tor, a proxy network, are getting their accounts frozen at 
>Paypal.  People are concerned about privacy today, and using a proxy 
>network for privacy should be something that you would support.
>
>Our network can cause the IP from which the user attaches at login 
>to be separate from the IP from which the user logs out (this is to 
>say, they can dynamically change exit node from the server cloud 
>during the same session).
>
>Does this cause paypal to flag the account?  If so, can we encourage 
>you to rethink this behavior?
>
>I encourage you to check out http://tor.eff.org for more 
>information, contact me, or search for tor.eff.org in google to find 
>our mentions in reports by Human Rights Watch, mainstream media, 
>Reporters without Borders, and many other groups that promote and 
>value internet security and privacy.
>
>Thanks!
>Shava Nerad
>Executive Director
>http://tor.eff.org/

I could have been more precise, but to dash this off in a few minutes 
and within their 1000 character limit...

Yrs,


Shava Nerad
Executive Director
http://tor.eff.org/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anonymous/
shava at freehaven.net
617-776-2659
617-767-6735 (cell)