Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

Jason Holt jason at lunkwill.org
Tue Sep 19 01:51:15 UTC 2006


On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Tim McCormack wrote:

> The problem is that Google puts the auth tokens in an http:// GET
> request -- you can see for yourself.  And then it switches to https://.
> The exit node could grab your auth tokens, I guess. Since you're
> effectively at the same IP as the Tor exit node, gmail wouldn't know the
> difference.

Where does that happen?  When I go to gmail.com I get redirected to an https 
login page.

 					-J



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