[tor-talk] >600 Tor relays without ContactInfo and similar properties

[bo0od]

Its stupid anyway to provide contact info for running relies, if Tor is 
an P2P protocol it would be funny to even think about it because thats 
mean like each user of Tor should provide his info.

Its not a big deal because solving malicious nodes and putting trust on 
DA  wouldnt be through having contact info or not, This is protocol 
level to solve.

nusenu:
> 
> Since the Tor directory authorities are no longer removing such undeclared relay groups
> and I feel bad about sitting on this list without doing anything with it
> I'm posting it here for your information.
> 
> This is a set of over 600 Tor relays that got added since 2020-01-29  on a limited set of hosters.
> They have some similarities in their sign-up pattern and properties.
> 
> 
> Most of them are middle relays (non exit relays).
> 
> total guard probability: 3.6%
> total middle probability: 10.1%
> 
> https://github.com/nusenu/tor-network-observations/blob/master/20200129-20200819_unknown_middle_relaygroup.txt
> 
> +-----------------------+----------+
> | as_name               |   relays |
> +-----------------------+----------+
> | Microsoft Corporation |      254 |
> | Linode, LLC           |       82 |
> | UAB Cherry Servers    |       75 |
> | <missing ASN data>    |       62 |
> | Cogent Communications |       44 |
> | Hetzner Online GmbH   |       38 |
> | OVH SAS               |       26 |
> | DigitalOcean, LLC     |       11 |
> | Online S.a.s.         |        9 |
> | Enzu Inc              |        7 |
> +-----------------------+----------+
> 
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