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What's preventing abusers from getting new identities when the PoW kicks in and continuing the DDoS? Edit: looks like PoW is set per "service" that's under att

• deleted 3y ago
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• bombcar 3y ago
  It’s per service and it goes from being able to overwhelm an onion to having to exert more computing usage than the server does serving you. It helps.
• LordDragonfang 3y ago
  Correct. PoW is also per request, so identity (new or old) is irrelevant.
• kragen 3y ago
  right, it's not per client; if it was per client you could just ban the abusive clients instead of asking them for pow. anonymity (or freely available new identities) mean that attackers can use a sybil attack to deny service via capacity overload