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Re: [tor-dev] Should cloud-hosted relays be rejected?



tordev123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I don't think banning GCE, AWS and MS Azure is an efficient method
> > to significantly increase the cost of attacks because it is trivial
> > for an attacker to quickly spin up "a large number of disposable
> > machines" at other ISPs as well.
> 
> It has other benefits. Those big providers see a huge amount of exit
> traffic and can potentially do correlation against that.

Agreed. We (people involved in documenting relay operation) should also
spend more time promoting dedicated servers. VMs have similar problems,
just at a smaller scale.
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