phw

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1. 31.▲
   by phw 13y ago

   Manually blocking known bad exits won't really hurt your anonymity but it's also not really necessary as the Tor Project does that for you. I was actually objecting to stuff like this: ExitNodes {us}. By interfering with your pat
2. 32.▲
   by phw 13y ago

   That's not necessary. Most of the relays in the report were already BadExited by the Tor Project. That means that the network consensus has the "BadExit" flag set which tells Tor clients not to select a particular relay as
3. 33.▲
   by phw 13y ago

   First of all, it's not that big of a problem. While our list looks long and scary, there are around 1,000 exit relays, so the chance of selecting a bad one in your circuit is not high. Furthermore, Tor's path selection algorithm
4. 34.▲
   by phw 13y ago

   I'm one of the authors. We believe that the Russian relays are actually controlled by the same person/group. More details are in Section 4.2 of the paper.