[tor-relays] Sybil Attack on 2025-11-20 - please setup your AROIs :)

[nusenu via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

as some of you might have noticed, yesterday 2025-11-20 someone added ~900 new tor relays
to the tor network.

They used nickname schemes from other operators:

* NTH
* prsv
* Quetzalcoatl
* for-privacy.net
* relayon
* DFRI
* bauruine
...

For this reason I wanted to encourage every operator, especially the large once to
setup their AROI.
Here is a howto:
https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/aroi-setup

Why?
You get nice timeseries graphs of your relays.
example: https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/artikel10.org.html

And it helps to **automatically** tell false-friends apart especially since families have become so
large that we can no longer use that as a good signal because family must be splitted if they become too large for the
descriptor limit.

A good example is nothingtohide.nl, all of their relays have a proper AROI configuration and they verify properly:
https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/contact/aa738469b86e5ea8838d95eb2b8e6504.html


Here are 3 examples of large relay operators
where AROI verification fails (partially):

If you are one of them or if you know them please ping them if you can:

* quetzalcoatl-relays.org  https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/contact/b32573fcfbc780a4b9ef03425f676400.html
* emeraldonion https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/family/34933fa4f34ef248c84847495870025a72b2681e85e40823c3bc1283d0c11d3d.html
* prsv.ch https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/contact/65a4a24bfc53c4c6c0d312ce29ab7883.html

kind regards,
nusenu


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