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

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

2005-08-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
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RE: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Gee, that's great. A global organization that has taken the task of worldwide censorship into its sweaty little hands. Did the google cache'd versions of these sites dissappear too? Tor networks, anyone? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL

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

2005-08-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Tor networks, anyone? Caveat when running Tor on a production machine, I got DDoS'd recently with some ~300 MBit/s. (Yes, my exit policy didn't contain IRC). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a

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

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
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 the ostensible originating IP addresses are faked? -TD From:

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

2005-08-01 Thread Dan McDonald
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 300Mbits (using Eugen's quote), is 2xOC-3. (OC-3 carries 155Mbit/sec ATM, but

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

2005-08-01 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Dan McDonald wrote: 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 300Mbits (using Eugen's quote), is