[tor-relays] Detecting Network Attack [re: exit synflooded]

[Scott Bennett]

grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 6:23 PM,  <tor at t-3.net> wrote:
> > Was anyone else's exit being synflooded yesterday and today?
>
> There could be a combined monitoring array deployed
> among all nodes that might start to answer these questions.
> And further alert on all sorts of interesting network attacks
> launched at Tor. Software exploits... segmentation / modulation
> attacks... etc. This is perimeter security 101, and Tor
> currently has no fence, no guard dogs, not even a janitor
> you can ask the next day. That's beyond bad.
> And big oppurtunity for new research project.

     Not that long ago, grarpamp, you were vehemently--to the point
of hysterics--opposed to fences, even with gate passes for authorized
entry.  Now you complain about the lack fences (without mention of
gate passes, however), guard dogs, etc.  What changed your mind?


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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