On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Philipp Winter phw@nymity.ch wrote:
I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with GCE remaining blocked. Cloud platforms seem quite popular among attackers -- presumably because they can quickly give you a large number of disposable machines.
Second, and perhaps less obvious, Google is already in a privileged position as many exit relays use Google's public DNS server as resolver. If GCE machines end up being guard relays, Google might be able to correlate some DNS requests of the Tor clients that end up selecting GCE guards.
Similar thoughts. Feeds into the idea about some meta metrics on relays users might select from... WOT, location, etc. Maybe they even want the cloud due to having really good pipes.
There are certainly plenty of non-mega-cloud VPS/dedi's to choose from out there, even in people's local cities. Just look around, form a relationship, not a billing statement.