[tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Andrew Lewman wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:51AM -0400, griffin at cryptolab.net wrote 0.4K bytes in 0 lines about:
> :   Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's
> : traffic is "bad"/used for piracy/etc?  This has been referenced in a few
> : talks, but was just wondering if this is written anywhere that can be easily
> : referenced.
> 
> There was an unpublished study in Nevada by some grad students who setup
> a few malware defense appliances on the end of a tor exit relay. They
> found 3% of the traffic passing through their exit relay was tagged as
> malware, by however the appliance was configured to determine malware
> or not.

Indeed, detected as malware and *is* malware are two very different
things.

In addition any malware that is coming from the regular internet into
the Tor network should not be blamed ont Tor.

Erik
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