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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: bauMAU5 on November 07, 2012, 11:10 pm
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I’m using the latest build of Liberté on a USB stick which has a torified version of firefox. Anyway, when I attempt to log on to bitinstant I get the following msg.
Access Denied
The owner of this website (www.bitinstant.com) has banned your IP address (xx.xxx.xx.xx). (Ref. xxxx)
Timestamp: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:43:16 -0800
Your IP address: xx.xxx.xx.xx
Requested URL: www.bitinstant.com/home
Error reference number: xxxx
Server ID: xx_xxxx
Process ID: xxx_xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx-x-xxxxxxxxx
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.4+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/535.4+ Epiphany/3.2.1
I was wondering if anyone here among the greatly esteemed SR community may have any thoughts on this.
thnx,
bauMAU5
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I've been having the exact same problem all day.
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Bitinstant is under DDOS attack
On this clearnet forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122882.new) someone suggested blocking TOR nodes as a possible solution to the issue so i'm guessing there are temporarily blocking TOR until the issue is resolved
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Thnx for the replies - a real pain - but sort of glad I'm not the only one having the same issue
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Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to access sites such as Mt.Gox, Bitinstant, your own Bank, or any mail Tracking site with TOR, since they can easily spot a TOR access and may block your account or report it to some LE authority or so some people believe. Better to be safe than sorry, so don't put it to the test.
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One thing that I often do in cases like this is simply take my laptop to a cafe or local hotspot and do it from there.
-mm
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yeah bitinstant is blocking all tor connections right now, i don't buy the ddos story, i think feds are coming at this by shutting down anonymous money transfers
basically time to start taking the laptop to starbucks
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Using public WiFi is not enough, be sure to spoof your MAC addresses people.