Question about the vulnerability

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:21:31PM -0400, nobledark at hushmail.com wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but when exactly does the Control Port come 
> into play? Is a Tor user who simply uses Tor in client mode 
> vulnerable? I've seen the Control Port info in the man pages but 
> that doesn't really answer my question - can anyone advise?

Read http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Aug-2007/msg00034.html for the
answer. We do promise to explain it better once more people have had a
chance to upgrade. :)

Hope that helps,
--Roger