> On 19/05/2019 00:38, jiggytwi...@danwin1210.me wrote: > It is likely true that many sites that block Tor do so due to the > detection of a single abuse event. When you have ~2 million
"A single abuse event" isn't it. At all. I've been running Tor nodes for decades and I support it for various reasons but I also run quite a few websites and I totally and fully understand Why someone would just want to not deal with the Constant Bombardment of Abuse that is coming from the Tor network. It's not some guy using Tor posing some abusive comment that's causing website owners to just block tor; it's a Constant Stream of Bots doing POST requests & looking for exploits. It's not something you see once or twice every now and then, it's 20+ requests per hour for things like wp-login.php, wp-comments.php, manager/FCKeditor/fckconfig.js, utility/convert/data/config.inc.php, /db.sql, /backupsite.sql and a whole lot of other files used that don't exist which may be used by some exploitable CMS system. A lot of the abusive bots coming from Tor are just stupid, they don't care if you're using WordPress or not, they will just constantly send POST requests anyway. This is obviously not just a Tor exit node problem. And it's possible to deal with it in better ways than using a Tor exit node blacklist. However, I do understand why someone would just say "I'll just ban that Tor thing, from my perspective it's one big abusive botnet" - that's essentially what it is from a pure web hosting providers perspective. That's probably what I'd do if I weren't familiar with Tor. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
