Moritz Bartl moritz@torservers.net wrote Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:58:00 +0100:
| >>> I mean the only reason, why there is more Tor-Exit-IPs | >>>> in the abuse log than any other single unique IP is that there is tens | >>>> of thousand of users using each Tor-Exit. | >> If this claim could be substantiated by some numbers it'd certainly help. | > I fully agree to that, it would be helpful to get some more analytic | > data like this. Not necessarily on my exit, but some general numbers, | > some facts. | > I just assumed that number above, but actually have no idea. | | Nobody does. We don't have figures from other ISPs or larger carries to | compare with either. Just from conversations with ISPs and VPN | providers, we don't see more abuse than they do. Also, it fully depends | on your definition of abuse (complaints). | | This is (still) a nice research question, and I'm happy to help with a | nice database of complaints. I'm sure other torservers.net operators | would help as well. Obviously one can't simply count the number of | complaints, as you need to take (at least) throughput and exit policy | into account.
DFRI would be interested in taking part in such research and should be able to contribute a couple of years worth of data on complaints from running 100-500 Mbps of exit traffic.