Re: [liberationtech] Has LinkedIn launched a borderline Denial of Service attack against Tor?

2014-07-01 Thread Mustafa Al-Bassam
It appears to be caused by a known DoS bug in the Tor Browser Bundle that was patched 4 months ago: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10905 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9901 Given the method of triggering the bug - when no Content-Type header is specified and

[liberationtech] Has LinkedIn launched a borderline Denial of Service attack against Tor?

2014-06-30 Thread S.G.Davies
Hello all, For some time now I've been concerned about the inability of many Tor users to access LinkedIn - and more importantly, the fact that attempting to use LinkedIn results in a fatal freeze. It seems to me that something isn't right here, so I've written a short piece on it. I'd be