Re: [tor-relays] I bumped out some more bad relays

[Croax <croax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 23:05 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:

I spent some time this week refining a new exit scanner, and today we

pushed some new reject rules to kick out some relays that we confirmed

were running mitmproxy to do more sslstrips.

Good. Does this mean it will be check and bumped more regularly? 

I see that lots of relays are running for more than one month from now. 

Expect some upcoming next steps that aim to change the fundamental arms

race, including experiments to use https by default in Tor Browser, either

via HTTPS Everywhere's "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" option (you can turn

that on right now) or via Firefox's upcoming built-in version of the idea:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/19850

Yes. From the browser perspective, HTTPS should be enforced whatever the context. We may blame final Tor users or website administors for not following security guidance (eg. HSTS preload) but in the end it is the Tor user privacy that is compromised. This is lasting for months and could have been easily prevented. This game of cat and mouse is not good for Tor reputation.

Thanks

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Croax

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