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So... Tor?
by CraftThatBlock 10y ago
So... Tor?
- ryanlol 10y agoThe botnet attacking Krebs could in all likelihood take down the entire Tor network.
- rtkwe 10y agoThe advertised bandwidth for the whole network is much lower than the 600+GBps that's attacking Kerbs it's a little under 200 GBps. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html
- sandworm101 10y agoTor has too many friends. I dislike the trend of Tor being used to control botnets, but the upside is that an entire underworld now sees tor as an asset. Any non-state attacking Tor would make some very interesting enemies.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt was one of early threats I described on the Tor network. NSA et all could easily pay for it to be done. Consistently. Year after year. I think the only reason they haven't is that U.S. and foreign intelligence services themselves find Tor so useful. Can't take down one's own tool for disrupting the competition. ;)
- themihai 10y agoTor is not good enough. That's the reason we see this kind proposals.
- metaphorm 10y agoTor can obfuscate the origin of https requests (assumedly, if we continue to believe Tor isn't infiltrated and surveiled, which it probably is). It cannot protect against DDoS attacks.
- dublinben 10y agoA network like Freenet would be more appropriate for a situation like this. Its peer to peer nature is like bittorrent, so the more popular content is, the more it is replicated, and thus becomes easier to access. It shouldn't be impossible to design a distributed network that has a positive feedback loop that makes a DDOS counterproductive, by actually boosting the targeted materials.
- lkmlkmsfd 10y ago> so the more popular content is, the more it is replicated, and thus becomes easier to access. Self censorship.
- Natanael_L 10y agoI2P + Tahoe-LAFS, IPFS