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Re: DDoS attacks via TOR?



In a similar vein, I've heard rumors of DDoS being attempted on hidden
service targets. My initial reaction was that this would just DoS the
network, but is there any chance I'm wrong?

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 07:12 +0600, Dmitriy Kazimirov wrote:
> 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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> Best Regards,
> 

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