+1. I was kinda floored at the logic behind 'since this attack hasn't been used in the wild it should be ignored' but... for each their own. ;)
-Damian On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Flamsmark <flamsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 February 2010 03:15, Scott Bennett <benn...@cs.niu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >But one big problem is that you have no guarantee whatsoever that I'm >> >telling you the truth about my measurements. See for example Kevin >> >Bauer et al's "Low Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor." >> >> Yes, I've understood that from the outset, but I haven't seen any >> evidence that such abuse is actually happening. > > Tor isn't just designed to be resilient to attacks that are actually being > employed. It is designed to be resistant to theoretical attacks too - as > well it should be. Indeed: complaining that we're protecting against > attacks, but nobody is using them is like saying `I bought this expensive > umbrella, but then I didn't even get wet.': *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/