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What was the maximum capacity over the entire attack? Even if you held majority for just an hour, it seems you could still build a useful database of identitie
by mrobot 12y ago
What was the maximum capacity over the entire attack?
Even if you held majority for just an hour, it seems you could still build a useful database of identities and their usage. I was trying to imagine how much just an hour Tor snapshot might be worth to somebody.
Maybe? Or no?
- sp332 12y agoAccording to EFF analyst @evacide, they had about 3,000 nodes or 0.27% of the network. https://twitter.com/evacide/status/548640012925812736 https://twitter.com/evacide/status/548640012925812736
- throwaway6543 12y agoNo, for two reasons. 1) new relays are capped at a low bandwidth for the first few days and 2) relays cannot become guard nodes (and therefore cannot identify real users' IPs) until they have been stable for at least 8 days see: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay