Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing. This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love
This is a hack that makes your machine appear (to unix traceroute) to be anywhere on the internet. Specifically, you can define a route to append to the real route that any arbitrary host on the internet would see.
tortunnel is a partial Onion Proxy implementation that's designed to build single-hop circuits through TOR exit nodes. This is useful for instances where you might want some very low level of anonymity and don't want to deal with the performance implications of using TOR's full three-hop circuits. It runs both as a SOCKS interface, and also exposes a fairly clean asynchronous C++ API to the TOR protocol itself. It was first written as a scanning tool for checking to see whether exit nodes were running sslstrip and is well suited for implementing other high-performance scanning routines against the TOR network as a whole. It might also be useful for implementing a perspectives-like interface for checking SSL, SSH, or other host certificates. It could be useful as an nmap scanning mode, or perhaps for something else entirely. To use the SOCKS interface, extract and compile the source. You will need the BOOST libraries in