I saw perhaps a 10% - 20%reduction in speed this weekend. Just my personal estimate. I did not use any kind of metering software. No worse then its been in the past. If your right, this might have been a test run. But more likely the Tor network is getting a lot of PR and people are trying it out.
I would say its now more important then ever to set up servers, the cat is out of the bag... I think Tor is well on its way to hitting critical mass and people will be using it. On 09/03/2013 08:35 AM, adrelanos wrote: > 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
