Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-03-03 Thread Zefir
On 2015-02-25 14:20, Speak Freely wrote: Oh yes, my money is gone already. They have no interest in talking to me anymore, as the decision was final. The Abuse department won't talk to the Support department, and the abuse department won't talk to me. The idea of initiating chargeback is

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-27 Thread cacahuatl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm not a big fan of adding more complexity to impove security. With fail2ban [1] you run the risk of, for example, someone bruteforcing your ssh from every exit node they can find, then your relay blocking those exits meaning there are certain

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-26 Thread Speak Freely
Hi ZEROF, I had fail2ban, harden (which includes tiger, tripwire, logcheck, plus MANY others), all the fancy log checkers, rkhunter and clamav, unattended-upgrades, and had all logs emailed to me on a daily basis. It was tedious to go through, but I was trying to do my due diligence. I disabled

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-26 Thread Speak Freely
After much research, I've found some interesting tidbits. Out of the 88 blacklists mxtoolbox reports against, 6/7 relays reported 3 problems - 1) Efnet blocks Tor exits and reported. No exceptions. - 2) CBL detected a single trojan/malware/spam, etc, and reported - 3) Spamhaus ZEN detected CBL's

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-26 Thread justaguy
So, you made a POST request to an online passwordchecker and they now probably have your password. On 02/26/2015 04:24 PM, Speak Freely wrote: Hi ZEROF, I had fail2ban, harden (which includes tiger, tripwire, logcheck, plus MANY others), all the fancy log checkers, rkhunter and clamav,

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-26 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 26.02.2015 um 03:42 schrieb ZEROF: 4. Setup honey-pot on your server and play their game (10-15 job): http://linuxdrops.com/how-to-set-up-a-honeypot-using-smart-and-simple-artillery-debian-6-0/ Sounds like a good strategy. What I don't like is the _permanent_ ban of IP addresses. Being a

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Sebastian Urbach
On February 25, 2015 8:21:32 PM Speak Freely when2plus2...@riseup.net wrote: Hi, Oh yes, my money is gone already. They have no interest in talking to me anymore, as the decision was final. The Abuse department won't talk to the Support department, and the abuse department won't talk to me.

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Toralf Förster
On 02/25/2015 07:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: Your account was suspended Does this really mean, that your money is lost already ? Often ISPs just plugged off a server from the network till you solved the problem your IPs are blacklisted on multiples lists for Spam and other malicious

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Sorry to hear this. I want to setup a big node at Voxility, which is a good provider to host Tor exits, maybe more of us can pool together financial resources and make a big cluster. I have some offers from them if interested. On 2/25/2015

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Josef Stautner
He said that he ran an reduced exit policy relay. Is portscanning even possible there? Am 25.02.2015 um 19:51 schrieb Toralf Förster: On 02/25/2015 07:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: Your account was suspended Does this really mean, that your money is lost already ? Often ISPs just plugged off a

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Josef Stautner
Hello Speak Freely, that's not nice to hear. Quote: Rest assure that, in case of an abuse, we will not terminate your account without notice. In fact we may not even terminate your VPS. You will receive a warning from our Abuse department giving you a choice to resolve the abuse case Has OVH

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Speak Freely
Oh yes, my money is gone already. They have no interest in talking to me anymore, as the decision was final. The Abuse department won't talk to the Support department, and the abuse department won't talk to me. I'd be more inclined to think these spam assassin fellas/evil doer finders just

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread jason
This++ On 02/25/2015 07:32 PM, Pascal wrote: If you paid with a credit card, give them a choice: they can either refund your money or you will initiate a chargeback. Either way you get your money back, but with the chargeback you will probably get all of your money back instead of a prorated

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Patti
I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam. Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc. Anyway I've had to give up and shut down FiatLux. Kind of a bummer, I really enjoyed contributing to

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Chris Patti cpa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam. Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc. I have operated a non-exit relay

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Speak Freely when2plus2...@riseup.net wrote: Hello fellow relay runners, This morning OVH decided to kill 7 of my relays due to spamming, and block all access to all services. I ran the Reduced Exit policy for all of my relays. I run one relay with OVH and

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread ZEROF
Hi man, I will try to explain you how things got in wrong direction for you. OVH don't lie, but they don't have best support that you can find around. Anyway. Last 15-25 days a lot of attacks was made on French ISP's and attacker used Tor IP list to do one part of his sick idea. One of my nodes

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Mirimir
On 02/25/2015 01:34 PM, ja...@icetor.is wrote: This++ Indeed! And if you used PayPal, they may also help. On 02/25/2015 07:32 PM, Pascal wrote: If you paid with a credit card, give them a choice: they can either refund your money or you will initiate a chargeback. Either way you get your

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Richard Johnson
On 2015-02-25 11:35, Speak Freely wrote: The Abuse department's rationale is as follows: Your account was suspended because 100% of your IPs are blacklisted on multiples lists for Spam and other malicious activities. This case is closed and this decision is final. Speaking as an abuse desk

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread I
OVH says no to Tor exits openly doesn't it? Quote: Rest assure that, in case of an abuse, we will not terminate your account without notice. In fact we may not even terminate your VPS. You will receive a warning from our Abuse department giving you a choice to resolve the abuse case Has

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread grarpamp
This is unfortunate but we will not be deterred. I would also go chargeback if notice you now give them does not result in satisfied action by close Sunday. You paid for a year based on some assurance, and did not receive. Now in the future... You plan was long and two part, partly confusing.