mirimir: > On 09/03/2013 03:35 PM, 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. > > What are these new presumptive botnet clients doing that degrades Tor > performance?
Maybe fetching a few clearnet websites or causing other legitimate looking clearnet traffic over Tor? > Or? Or sending some dummy traffic to each other's hidden service address to cause a little traffic hard to track? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
