[tor-relays] do the 800+ UbuntuCore relays constitute a Sybil attack?

[Chad MILLER]

To be honest, I reckon these UbuntuCore nodes are almost all mundane
desktops and server.

I think there are only a few added each day, for a total of about one or
two thousand that intend to be bridges and relays. Intent doesn't mean they
have the inbound connectivity to join the consensus, though.







On Nov 28, 2017 17:18, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:06:11PM -0500, starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx
> wrote:
> > The population of these has been climbing for more than a week and
> no-one has commented, which seems odd.  No contact provided.
> >
> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/UbuntuCore
>
> See this thread:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-August/010046.html
>
> So they are not a single unified operator.
>
> What fraction of consensus weights are they? I'm under the impression
> they're running on refrigerators or whatever so most of them have crappy
> connectivity.
>
> --Roger
>
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