On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:25:00 +0000 nusenu nusenu-lists@riseup.net wrote:
Hi,
due to some recent and ongoing events related to a malicious entity running tor relays I'll start to pursue an idea that I had for some time: require non-empty ContactInfo (non-empty does not mean valid email address)
This is primarily a non-technical policy discussion which will take place on tor-dev@.
It is very easy to fill ContactInfo with something meaningless, including automatically. Nicknames are required to be non-empty, did that stop any abuse? At its simplest bots or abusers can set ContactInfo to be the same as nickname; or to a different randomly generated word or phrase.
I suggest to carefully weigh all the possible positive effect from this (if any at all!!) against the effort required to advocate for and then implement such policy change.