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The botnet attacking Krebs could in all likelihood take down the entire Tor network.

• rtkwe 10y ago
  The 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 ago
    Tor 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.
    • rtkwe 10y ago
      Without the particular bot net/what have you taking credit for it do we generally know who is running a DDOS?
    • ryanlol 10y ago
      Enemies? Hah, you mean extortion targets!
• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  It 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. ;)