[tor-talk] Exit Node Scanning Status

[Roc Admin]

Actually, I might be a good fit. Feel free to ping me off-list to discuss.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me what mechanisms we (or the Tor Project members)
>> have in scanning for malicious exit nodes. Such as nodes that are
>> manipulating DNS requests, stripping SSL, etc. I know of the SOAT
>> project from Mike Perry but the last I heard there was a GSOC dev
>> working on the project. Is that still being used?
>
> Hi Roc. In theory there are SoaT scanners running and sending their
> reports to...
>
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-exitscanner
>
> ... but that hasn't been maintained in quite some time. The last
> report to tor-exitscanner@ was on 6/9/12 and as I understand it SoaT
> needs a lot of love. In addition to that our process for giving relays
> a BadExit flag even after they're reported is really poor, requiring
> manual intervention by three extremely busy people.
>
> Like many of our spaces the trouble is that there's no one presently
> dedicated to making it better. It looks like a fun area (I've been
> tempted to write a SoaT counterpart for years) but lack the bandwidth.
> Per chance is this something that you'd be interested in leading?
>
> Cheers! -Damian
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