Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:51AM -0400, [email protected] wrote 0.4K > bytes in 0 lines about: > : Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's > : traffic is "bad"/used for piracy/etc? This has been referenced in a few > : talks, but was just wondering if this is written anywhere that can be easily > : referenced. > > There was an unpublished study in Nevada by some grad students who setup > a few malware defense appliances on the end of a tor exit relay. They > found 3% of the traffic passing through their exit relay was tagged as > malware, by however the appliance was configured to determine malware > or not.
Indeed, detected as malware and *is* malware are two very different things. In addition any malware that is coming from the regular internet into the Tor network should not be blamed ont Tor. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
