[tor-relays] Botnet issues and upgrading to 0.2.4.x

[Gordon Morehouse]

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Dan Staples:
> Thanks Gordon, I've been following your posts about the 
> circuit-creation storms with interest. I recently upgraded my Pi
> to Tor v0.2.4, and haven't witnessed a storm yet (they are
> relatively rare for me). But I am certainly interested in trying
> out your mitigation strategies.

They certainly got rarer (or stopped rising to the level of being
noticeable in logs so often) with the upgrade to 0.2.4.17-rc.

> Regarding your deb packages, have you considered talking with any 
> Debian or Raspbian devs? Getting them to sign your public key, and 
> possibly even accepting your packages upstream, would create a web
> of trust so folks would be more willing to install what you build.

It's on the list[1].  :)

1. https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/917796

Best,
- -Gordon M.
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