Andrew, As said privately, thanks for the blogpost.
As some other people in the list has done, to satisfy you curiosity you may always try to file a request against the competent service (not mine) asking for stats, giving explanations or requesting your tool not to be blocked. It would also be useful to have the views of other tool / VPN providers, et al, experiencing similar problems with europa.eu sites. Cheers C. ________________________________________ From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 24 September 2013 05:30 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:13:30 +0000 <camino.man...@ec.europa.eu> wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > This news certainly do not help. > > http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ > > Grateful for your views Thanks for asking, rather than just assuming poorly written press is accurate. Our blog post says it all, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients They aren't using exit relays, they are only using hidden services. This means that http://ec.europa.eu wouldn't see bot requests coming through tor. I bet even by blocking tor, http://ec.europa.eu still sees endless botnet requests and other attacks. I'd love to see data relating to what http://ec.europa.eu is seeing specifically from tor versus non-tor IP addresses (both ipv4 and ipv6). Something like quantity of attacks from tor vs. non-tor, breakdown of those requested deemed an attack into their specific type of attack, and other basic metrics. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
