Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:12:38PM -0400, Dan McDonald wrote: I'm surprised that the target node has that much INBOUND bandwidth, quite frankly. The node itself has only a Fast Ethernet port, but there's some 4 GBit available outside of the router. I'm genuinely glad the node has been taken

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:51:57PM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: What?!! 300MB/s for a Tor node? OK, I'm a telecom guy and not a data guy but that sounds suspiciously like someone loaded up an OC-3's worth of traffic and then slammed your node. Ain't no hacker gonna do that. Any indication

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, I did know that 300Mb/sec isn't super-huge for Denial of Service attacks at least, but this is an obscure Tor node. Someone attacking it at this stage in the game has a real agenda (perhaps they want to see if certain websites get disrupted? Does Tor work that way for short-ish