Roger Dingledine:

we have a plausible guess about where they came from, and we contacted the company that we think controls the IP addresses, so they can figure it out / clean up as needed.

Interesting. I'm curious, how did you link the IP addresses to the company? Is your guess that the company set up relays or that someone used that company's servers to setup relays? ("clean up" sounds like someone used their servers in an unauthorized way)

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Arisbe arisbe@cni.net wrote:

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Seems like none of us have the time to research these events or those before. If people can't play by written and unwritten rules regarding Tor contact info, family members, etc. and they 'could' be a danger to anonymity, why does Tor bother with them? If people are sincere about helping the Tor network, they will express that in their offers--otherwise, as in this situation, they should be removed until sufficient information is provided.

Both anonymity and nymity provide strengths and weakness to networks. Certainly everyone can imagine some.

In that understanding, finding / creating "good" relays is as useful as hunting for "bad" relays.

As before, if some set of rules and metrics might be felt important to you or others in choosing relays to use, why not start a project to collate and publish lists of relays based on that, then users can subscribe it.

Thanks to the appreciated efforts of those volunteering their time and research to find things, these relays are up for a fat k-line real soon now :)