Re: Scanning trough proxy, including Tor: Ethical consideration

[Gioacchino Mazzurco <gmazzurco89 () gmail com>]

So for you it is more ethical that someone having money to pay a programmer to 
patch Nmap, have good port scanning performance trough TOR while someone not 
having that power cannot ?

I don't see how your proposal would help TOR exit node maintainers, it seems 
to me it is just a tentative to trow responsibility on the developers instead 
of letting the user be responsible.

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 01:44:44 PM Fabio Pietrosanti  - lists wrote:
> Regarding the high-performance scanning trough proxy, including and
> especially Tor, did you considered the ethical aspects of such
> implementation?
>
> Up to now there are no point'n'click high-performance ports canning tool
> to work well behind Tor, this means that the Tor network abuse for ports
> canning exists, but it's not yet a major problem for Tor Exit Node
> operators.
>
> Whenever nmap will support scanning trough Tor with high-performance and
> high-accuracy, we will see a strong increase in amount of abuses of the
> Tor network.
>
> This will lead to problems to Tor Exit Node operators that on a
> volunteer basis support the Tor anonymity network.
>
> I'd suggest to keep the patch for scanning trough Tor, off nmap official
> software releases.
>
> I know it's a controversial topic, but consider the possible impact it
> will have on a public, free, volunteer run Tor network.

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