On 06/14/10 18:52, John Brooks wrote: [] >> ........ And second, the exit policy of my node does not allow >> IRC. >> >> For me this makes no sense at all. >> > > From my experience, shadowserver has a habit of being overzealous > like this. I've never dealt with them in the context of Tor, but I > had an experience trying to get them to remove a large, legitimate > IRC network from their blacklists awhile ago (apparently, some > wireless providers use these blacklists to block traffic by IP). My > impression is that anything that they consider to be even > peripherally related to botnet or spam activity gets blacklisted and > reported, without much further investigation. I was told that they > removed those servers from their blacklists, but as of now (many > months later), they are still listed. > > Many ISPs are willing to simply ignore automated and often-incorrect > abuse reports like these.
Given that tor-readme.spamt.net does not allow IRC, this may indeed be a false alarm. "Details" are necessary to understand what may, or may not have happened! Perhaps a gentle offensive would be appropriate in this situation!? e.g. - A letter to server4you (cc to shadow) re-emphasing tor's commitment to legitimate use, and educating them about "automated and often-incorrect abuse reports!? The objective of this gentle offensive would be to add server4you to that list of ISPs that ignores shadowserver alarms. This begs the question, does anyone have a well-written letter and/or links to articles documenting honey-pot/shadowserver false positives? Perhaps a well-constructed letter would be something that could be maintained at the TOR home page; available to other nodes in similar situations!? (Also, perhaps TOR should additionally start documenting cases of false positives - it may become very useful when the next political onslaught against anonymity becomes active.) *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
