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Why CloudFlare can never satisfy Tor die-hards, and shouldn't try
- jgrahamc 11y agoI posted this just so I could comment that the analysis there is wrong headed and I disagree with this article.
- mtmail 11y agoCan you elaborate your disagreement?
- jgrahamc 11y agoThe article implies that we should just not bother trying to handle traffic coming from Tor. I believe this is a mistake because we become stronger by dealing with difficult situations. For example, we've build a tremendous chunk of technology for handling massive DDoS attacks because we invested in dealing with them. Tor is difficult because the users want anonymity and are aggregated across a small number (~1,500) IP addresses. But CloudFlare will be much stronger if we are able to reliably detect malicious use of Tor and allow through normal use. It's worth solving these problems precisely because Tor is so challenging. We have a whole bunch of technology for detecting and blocking attacks, making them work really, really well for Tor is something I'm investing in.