[tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays

[Keifer Bly]

I do agree. I had said before that this could possibly be an attempted
attack on the network by trying to infect relay operators machines with
spyware, etc.

> Sure. For those, you just keep filing abuse reports. Just automate it,
so every message triggers a report. If enough list members do that,
there'll be lots of abuse reports.

How would you suggest we do that? thank you.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:

> On 09/21/2018 01:24 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
> >
> > ➢ There are lots of technical folk on these tor lists.
> > There ought to be at least a few who'd enjoy killing some spam servers.
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by “killing them”? If you are referring to
> forcibly taking the servers offline, that would most likely be illegal.
>
> As Marv says, "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't
> feel bad." So I don't care so much about "illegal". Indeed, there is
> effectively no law that protects us from jerks like this. Maybe they're
> just sex spammers, but you gotta treat them like malicious attackers,
> because they might be. That's especially so because they're targeting
> Tor Project lists. So it comes down to the right of self-defense.
>
> > Not to mention an amount of the spamming addresses are using Gmail and
> Yahoo mail accounts, and we can’t “kill” those sources.
>
> Sure. For those, you just keep filing abuse reports. Just automate it,
> so every message triggers a report. If enough list members do that,
> there'll be lots of abuse reports.
>
> <SNIP>
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