> TOR is now blocked campus-wide at Auburn University (for all 24,000 students) > because of apparent attacks emanating from the TOR network.
If your problem is anything like the one we had, I'm guessing the "attacks" have more to do with the fact that many journal subscriptions authenticate by IP address, thus, if someone has their client configured to be an exit, people will readily find it and use it to download en-masse from your very expensive journal memberships. Let's not debate the stupidity of authenticating a network by IP address .. but the above problem is ultimately what forced us to do the same thing (although we just prohibit the operation of an exit). I should note that the original effort to run an exit was conducted by myself, and I do network security here .. but it was the complaints from the library folks that got us into hot water .. there simply wasn't an easy way to block access to all of them without an overly-complex exit policy, and all of our IP space is within a single /16. Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
