Hi everyone,
(Tor advocacy vs. panicked small-time hosting company suffering from "massive
attacks")
What advice can I offer to someone who's blocking traffic from Tor because
their network
is apparently experiencing sustained DOS attacks via some exits?
They explained to me that they were aware of the value of anonymity online, but
couldn't
see a way to protect their hosting customers from "attacks making the systems
inaccessible".
In the end I offered some vague handwaving ("why don't you temporarily throttle
traffic
just from the nodes where the attacks come from"). I'm not going to do *their*
job.
But it would still be useful to have something better to point to than just a
vague remark.
This is a situation where the standard reasons why one needn't block Tor don't
really work,
and next time I'd like to be better prepared to argue why this isn't a reason
either.
So, is there some ready-made explanation I could send to such a company, that
explains
in technical detail how they can *properly* mitigate this without overblocking?
K.
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