New hypothesis: This is an attempt to shut down the Tor network once and forever.
Might this be an attack on the Tor network with the goal to make it that slow for everyone, that no one will use it anymore? (DDOS) Doing this using a botnet and only taking up a portion of their individual botnet member's bandwidth? If the botnet owner would force their botnet members to use all of their bandwith, the DDOS attack would be more effective in the short run, but the owner of the infected computer might notice it much easier and clean its computer. Using only a negligible part of their botnet member's bandwidth ensures that unwanted connections go unnoticed for a very long time, thus making this not a short successful DDOS attack, but an ever lasting one. Roger Dingledine: > Check out > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html Even more users. And counting. I think now it's very unlikely that this is a natural growth of real users. If that was the case, you could see lots of discussion/support questions from those new Tor users or users of software which uses Tor. > There's a slight increase (worsening) in the performance measurements: > https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html Got even worse. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
