There are many bridges in Onionoo that seem to follow a common naming convention: two dictionary words concatentated, then truncated to 16 characters. That, plus the fact that many of them run on the same platform, run only the obfs4 transport, and have related last_restarted times, makes me think they are somehow related and perhaps malicious. In a sample of 200 Onionoo bridges, 19% followed the convention. I noticed this by accident and I'm not planning to look into it more, so I'm dropping notes here. I downloaded https://onionoo.thecthulhu.com/details?type=bridge ("bridges_published":"2016-11-28 21:41:02") and manually looked at the first 200 entries (of ~2500). I picked out the ones that followed the naming convention: two dictionary words concatenated and truncated to 16 characters; the 40 matches are appended to this message. Of those, only 2 (mapletalon and coffledtileries) don't match the others with respect to transports. The words look like they are randomly chosen from a dictionary and some of them are esoteric or proper names. For example, cubicsrepugned = cubics + repugned instinctivevital = instinctive + vital stegosaurscontin = stegosaurs + contin(ue?) famishmentbarrac = famishment + barrac(ks?) Trobriandersbacc = Trobrianders + bacc(hannal?) friablerecitativ = friable + recitativ(e?) Ruidosospostcopu = Ruidosos + postcopu(latory?) introspectpacifi = introspect + pacifi(c?) cosponsorsangula = cosponsors + angula(r?) Here's the list of 40 bridges I selected manually out of the 200. Notice that 17 of them have a last_restarted time withing 10 minutes of 2016-11-11 00:00:00. $ ./nodeinfo < suspicious-bridges.json hashed_fingerprint nickname first_seen last_seen last_restarted platform transports BD2B73AE5F68276BE4E01534F97A28E992B24894 mapletalon 2015-05-01 22:57:41 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-10-18 17:48:08 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs3,scramblesuit,obfs4,fte 89BD7F3C63464D389B73914FAA818EBF61EE6B46 coffledtileries 2015-12-30 16:52:56 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-07 12:20:31 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs3 D6EC04069E89F08CAE4CBA0E2BE44FFD282BAB07 Trobriandersbacc 2016-09-04 05:38:16 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-10 00:05:41 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 5ECF6C485B3DD05EDB9F95073257B8C33C755EE2 ElchoCanarian 2016-11-09 03:41:02 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-10 11:07:26 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 FCA481C317E434590CFA06E77A4AE7F5E2E371A3 sailboaterecthym 2016-09-22 15:38:16 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:01:10 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 8A1D76B37B8BB17C35454454E19C729C1AC47E8A orbitalprogymnas 1970-01-01 00:00:00 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:01:15 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 4B9C80E3798BAB6B21D7256EE47EA20BF8F4576C Davossoutdroppin 2016-10-18 16:41:01 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:01:18 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 EFEB18D156E1E14837E417113B3971C04F4F5FBB Ruidosospostcopu 1970-01-01 00:00:00 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:01:21 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 79C6F406B3D3927ABB881EB54323B29DF400F9E2 hypospadiasesdum 2016-10-03 03:38:17 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:02:30 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 B3B7B975DCD1D7E59D65202DB8E6E2D75655B358 stegosaurscontin 2016-10-23 17:41:01 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:02:48 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 43CBD641F40EE1563BB1AF7736175512A5B559A2 famishmentbarrac 2016-10-22 12:41:01 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:03:48 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 1931388E3C53689BED98E0BEFA7052F07BCC7F70 instinctivevital 2016-10-27 20:41:01 2016-11-28 21:41:02 2016-11-11 00:04:48 Tor 0.2.8.9 on Linux obfs4 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