Re: [tor-relays] relays "in the cloud"

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 04:35:15PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:

:In summary, it seems likely that IaaS is pwned wholesale. Colo hardware :is somewhat more expensive to attack and possibly succeeds in raising :the bar from "software" to "attacker has to roll a truck to pwn me", :which is my current recommendation for threat modeling.

I'll grant all that, but what does it get an attacker over traffic analysis in and out of that data center which is already easy in software?

Again assuming the node is just a relay and not generating any traffic of its own that should be anonymised.

-Jon