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>Tor has acknowledged their "botnet problem" since at least 2013: >https://research.torproject.org/techreports/botnet-tr-2013-1.. https://research.torproject.or
by ryanlol 11y ago
>Tor has acknowledged their "botnet problem" since at least 2013:
>https://research.torproject.org/techreports/botnet-tr-2013-1.. https://research.torproject.org/techreports/botnet-tr-2013-1....
>That same paper walks through the challenges of dealing with it and doesn't find any satisfactory solutions.
But that's all utter nonsense! These botnets only access stuff inside the Tor network (i.e the C&C, that the operators want to hide), they don't use Tor to access clearnet content. Even a small botnet will have more nodes than there exists tor exit nodes (966 as of right now), what possible benefit could there be for the botnet operator from doing that?