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Re: DDoS attacks via TOR?

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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:12:30 +0600
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Btw, about policy,
I'm curious what will happen if highly popular(equivalent web site has dedicated server and utilize it) hidden service will be created. Could Tor network carry such load?
(if site content for download is rather small files,less than Mb in general)

2008/11/6 Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:51:40PM +0100, dr._no@xxxxxxx wrote:
> is there any documented case of a DDoS attack via TOR or is
> a DDoS attack via TOR only an urban legend?

It doesn't make any sense to DDoS people over Tor. It wouldn't work.

See also https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse#DDoS

--Roger

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