RE: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

["Chris Willis" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am very interested in this.  While not a tech guru, I would be happy
to assist (if I get any spare time).

My own TOR node on my colo'ed web server (200KB/sec baby - now THAT is a
contribution to the project) certainly doesn't do anything like this - I
was dumb enough to just install, configure & let er run.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Alexander W. Janssen
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:33 AM
To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

Hi all,

considering that I heard from several people that they notice strange
sideeffects since a couple of days - altered webpage, advertisement
where no ads should be - I started a little investigation if there are
any obviously bogus exitnodes in the wild:

http://itnomad.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/analyzing-tor-exitnodes-for-anom
alies/

I welcome you to start your own investigation; if there are really bogus
exitnodes we should be aware of those and we should know their node's
nickname to put them on a shitlist.

This might leed to an escalation in the future when marketeers realize
the possibilities of altering traffic.

Comments, ideas, pointers to other projects?

Alex.


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