[tor-talk] torslap!

[mirimir]

On 04/23/2013 07:41 PM, uruioz at tormail.org wrote:

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> IF this was true then they would as i write this be paying the modest sum
> even paying in bitcoins if they chose to rent general purpose vps or vpn
> and continue registering to deface wikipedia as we speak. IF they are
> doing this in the same numbers then the tor blocking is ineffective at
> stopping defacement. but gregory reports that blocking tor is part of
> effective countermeasure. this must mean that blocking zero-money attacks
> is worthwhile *even* while attack for payment is already widely available.

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Free "anonymous" proxies (from HideMyAss etc) and free VPNs work just
fine over Tor, and there's no money trail ;)