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A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR
by jcoffland 8y ago
A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR exit nodes is malicious, it would be unwise to conclude that most users of TOR have bad intentions.
- kelnos 8y agoTrue, but from the perspective of an org like CloudFlare, that doesn't matter. They don't know (or care) about the user breakdown coming from Tor; they just know that the vast majority of traffic coming from it is malicious. And since part of the point of Tor is to make it hard to determine who's who, the good traffic gets binned with the bad.
- thfuran 8y agoI don't think anyone is concluding that.
- jcoffland 8y agoI think a lot of people come to exactly that conclusion.
- ChrisLomont 8y agoWhy would they? Most people cognizant of these terms knows a bot generates more traffic than a human; that’s the point of most bots.