Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Richie
ator.org actually works. They try to get Relay Operators to mine/receive their cryptocurrency through uptime, see https://docs.ator.io/ . Also some hardware plans regarding Wifi routers with preinstalled "ator" software/routing. Personally, i'd say "kill it with fire", but well, thats just me

Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Leon D
So they’re just a cryptocurrency mining company? I’m not 100% sure how they are able to use Tor Relays to mine Cryptocurrency? On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 11:53, Richie wrote: > ator.org actually works. They try to get Relay Operators to mine/receive > their cryptocurrency through uptime, see

Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Bauruine
From what I read it looks like they plan to create some blockchain that uses "Proof-of-relaying-Tor-traffic" as an alternative to Proof of Work or Proof of Stake. From their blog "rather than requiring complex off-chain verification or arbitrary computation to prevent bad actors receiving

[tor-relays] export iptables metrics

2023-03-17 Thread Toralf Förster
I found the time and wrote a Bash script [1] to export iptables and ipset metrics to Prometheus/Grafana. It works at least with [2]. [1] https://github.com/toralf/torutils/blob/main/metrics.sh [2] https://github.com/toralf/torutils#readme -- Toralf