Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters 188
Daniel_Stuckey writes "This week, the verification company Service Objects announced a new tool to help websites detect 'suspicious' visitors using Tor and other anonymous proxies. Its updated DOTS IP Address Validation product identifies 'suspicious' discrepancies between the user's home location and the location of the IP address the order's coming from. It joins a handful of other tools on the market promising Tor-detection for retailers. It's a logical strategy: If you're trying to buy something with a stolen credit card, you're obviously going to want to block your real identity and location while doing it. But it also raises the question of whether targeting anonymity services to hunt out fraudsters could have chilling effects for harmless Tor users trying to protect their privacy online—particularly this year in light of the NSA-spying scandal."
LOL wut? (Score:3, Interesting)
"But it also raises the question of whether targeting anonymity services to hunt out fraudsters could have chilling effects for harmless Tor users trying to protect their privacy online"
Umm.. the user is ordering something using their name, credit card, and address. They are not going to use Tor to protect their anonymity.
What's the problem? (Score:4, Interesting)
If you want to stay anonymous, load a pre-paid debit card and jump through the anti fraud hoops. Nobody said staying off the grid was going to be easy.
Re:Come on... (Score:0, Interesting)
What credit card and shipping info?
- My corp card amex that gets things shipped to a local PO BOX?
- My single use randomly generated number on another card?
- The reshipping address I used to have in another state? (yes, that costs cash...)
Look shithead, just because you work without privacy doesn't mean the rest of the world does. Some of us really can't risk having having extensive profiles built up.
That includes where our connections originate from, our user name, our date of birth, our shipping address, zip codes, and even phone numbers.
Hell, I have three phone numbers all associated with different areas codes -- only one of which correlates with the appropriate zip code.
No, there's no drugs or porno or hitmen going on. Yes, there's still a reason. No, what the reason is is none of your fucking business.
So no, zero kudos are due. GPs observation is shallow and nearly devoid of merit.