Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-28 Thread Ed Carter
How can any true assessment be made of illegal content if it is encrypted? I'm curious about this too. What exactly is being measured here? They must be referring to traffic exiting the Tor network through an exit node, after which it is unencrypted unless the user is also using https. The

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:41:50PM -0400, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Ahhh, many thanks for the clarification. Details on this were very : spotty, and I didn't want to speculate. It would be safe to assume details are still spotty. Until someone actually

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-27 Thread Patrick
How can any true assessment be made of illegal content if it is encrypted? I'm curious about this too. What exactly is being measured here? On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:10 PM, I beatthebasta...@inbox.com wrote: How can any true assessment be made of illegal content if it is encrypted? Robert

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-27 Thread krishna e bera
On 14-05-27 01:29 PM, Patrick wrote: How can any true assessment be made of illegal content if it is encrypted? I'm curious about this too. What exactly is being measured here? Exit nodes can catch the domain names of sites being accessed. They can snoop the contents which would include

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-26 Thread Griffin Boyce
Andrew Lewman wrote: There was an unpublished study in Nevada by some grad students who setup a few malware defense appliances on the end of a tor exit relay. They found 3% of the traffic passing through their exit relay was tagged as malware, by however the appliance was configured to

[tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hi all, Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's traffic is bad/used for piracy/etc? This has been referenced in a few talks, but was just wondering if this is written anywhere that can be easily referenced. thanks, Griffin -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Andrew Lewman wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:51AM -0400, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 0.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's : traffic is bad/used for piracy/etc? This has been referenced in a few : talks, but was just

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread force44
LOL, the DOJ is optimistic, I would say 90% is used for piracy etc... Original Message From: Griffin Boyce grif...@cryptolab.net Apparently from: tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org To: Tor Talk tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread tor
I did run a tor exit with only port 25 blocked, did push 850 tb in 4 months and did got 3 abuses so far, 3 % bad traffic is much to high i think Am 25.05.2014 12:11 schrieb Griffin Boyce grif...@cryptolab.net: Hi all, Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/26/14, forc...@safe-mail.net forc...@safe-mail.net wrote: LOL, the DOJ is optimistic, I would say 90% is used for piracy etc... Sure, anecdotal evidence can be useful. But I don't know how to turn one anecdote, or even 1 million, into a useful statistic. What we see that's published may be

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread I
How can any true assessment be made of illegal content if it is encrypted? Robert -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk