[tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

Gordon Morehouse gordon at morehouse.me
Mon Nov 4 21:41:59 UTC 2013


On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:58:57 +0000, Paritesh Boyeyoko <parity.boy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 01 Nov 2013 14:39:28 Gordon Morehouse wrote:
> 
> > Completely aside from the ethical and censorship-related buzzsaw you're
> > about to run into for posting this (perennial) question, I believe some
> > actual developers on Tor have written a paper about the problems with
> > Bittorrent et al (and I think there's a more specific one than the Why Tor
> > Is Slow[1] paper) but I can't currently find it.  Anybody know?
> > 
> > 1. 
> > https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/roadmaps/2009-03-11-performance.pdf
> > 
> > NB: the above paper is from 2009.
> 
> I've just had a quick scan of that paper and it makes for an interesting read. 
> :)  I'm going to go away and read it properly but a couple observations.

Here are some more links:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9368

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/papers/throttling-sec2012.pdf

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-adaptive-throttling-tor-clients-entry-guards

Finally found em just as another user brought some of them back to my attention.  :)

Best,
-Gordon M.


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