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You're suffering from the Toupée Fallacy. You assume that these people must be intentionally making themselves noticeable, because there's no way the average ma
by notriddle 5y ago
You're suffering from the Toupée Fallacy. You assume that these people must be intentionally making themselves noticeable, because there's no way the average malicious Tor node operator could be this dumb.
But there's no rule saying that these are average malicious exit node operators. They could just be particularly stupid ones. We don't know about the competent ones.
- ajcp 5y agoI'm not assuming this actor must be doing this intentionally *because* these are a lot of stupid things, nor that it is indictive of the average, malicious Tor node operator. I'm arguing the opposite. Not only did an actor commit a string of seemingly sloppy and unrelated "mistakes", where they had correctly executed that same things n times before for x amount of time, but they then brought their own existence to the attention of a technically empowered group to see how many of those seemingly unrelated and sloppy mistakes the system tolerates. I'm not sure how this is an example of the "toupée fallacy", as I'm just positing as ti why this toupée would look so intentionally bad; to figure out the tolerance for a bad toupée and discover what about it made the toupée "bad".