Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-08-23 Thread tor-server-creator
Would be interesting to have an outdate-consensus handling deprecated relays just for statistics or maybe also to set them all to flagged as bad or throttle them somehow?   Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2015 17:11 schrieb starlight.201...@binnacle.cx:   My relay says it receives about 50k v1/v2/v3

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-08-23 Thread tor-server-creator
Just thoughts: To throttle how about assign twisted consensus weight to outdated versions? Highest consensus weight to slowest relays and vice versa? Wouldnt they overload/throttle themselfes nicely?   Am Sonntag, 23. August 2015 10:24 schrieb tor-server-crea...@use.startmail.com:   Would be

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-08-23 Thread starlight . 2015q3
At 11:11 8/19/2015 -0400, you wrote: >But all that bot traffic creates a lot >of statistical "background noise," and >so may be providing a service in making >it more difficult for advanced adversaries >to perform traffic correlation analysis. > >Thoughts anyone? Here is one excellent reason to lo

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-08-23 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:45 PM, wrote: > > So the more garbage flung around by bots, > the better (as long as Tor remains usable), > as it increases the difficulty and cost of > storing Tor traffic by orders-of-magnitude. > This may not be in the interest of tax-paying Americans, considering t

Re: [tor-relays] clarification on what Utah State University exit relays store ("360 gigs of log files")

2015-08-23 Thread Richard Johnson
On 2015-08-13 01:40, Mike Perry wrote: As such, I still look forward to hearing from someone who has worked at an ISP/University/etc where this is actually practiced. What is in *those* logs? I deal with two flow recording practices and resulting records retention at work. The first is at the