Re: [tor-relays] Ongoing denial of service attack against Tor relays by leased botnet in America and PRC (Nobistech, Datashack, Limestone, HE, Pegtech, WholeSale Interent, and Psychz VPS nodes, etc)

2013-03-28 Thread grarpamp
> New to the list, I run a Tor exit node from my small cable modem connection > in Honolulu, as well as for a short time on a few on VPS's to prove to > Over the last several weeks, I have collected substantial evidence > indicating that a botnet is degrading the Tor anonymity network in its > ent

Re: [tor-relays] Ongoing denial of service attack against Tor relays by leased botnet in America and PRC (Nobistech, Datashack, Limestone, HE, Pegtech, WholeSale Interent, and Psychz VPS nodes, etc)

2013-03-28 Thread Barack Obama
How do you know if it's a DDOS attack rather than normal traffic? On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 28.03.2013 11:13, Kent Backman wrote: > > Over the last several weeks, I have collected substantial evidence > > indicating that a botnet is degrading the Tor anonymity ne

Re: [tor-relays] Ongoing denial of service attack against Tor relays by leased botnet in America and PRC (Nobistech, Datashack, Limestone, HE, Pegtech, WholeSale Interent, and Psychz VPS nodes, etc)

2013-03-28 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 28.03.2013 11:13, Kent Backman wrote: > Over the last several weeks, I have collected substantial evidence > indicating that a botnet is degrading the Tor anonymity network in its > entirety via a sustained denial of service attack. I don't have much time right at the moment (sorry), and I don'

[tor-relays] Ongoing denial of service attack against Tor relays by leased botnet in America and PRC (Nobistech, Datashack, Limestone, HE, Pegtech, WholeSale Interent, and Psychz VPS nodes, etc)

2013-03-28 Thread Kent Backman
Up front, I am not a conspiracy theorist. New to the list, I run a Tor exit node from my small cable modem connection in Honolulu, as well as for a short time on a few on VPS's to prove to myself that it wasn't "just me." Over the last several weeks, I have collected substantial evidence indicati