Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

[Matthew <pumpkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

 We already filter exit nodes based on suspicion by defaulting
> ExcludeSingleHopRelays to true (the reason for that being that single
> hop exits are more likely to be passively monitoring data).
Can you please say a little more about this for all of us who are not au 
fait with all command options?
> We also
> invalidated the trotsky relays without proof of malicious intent (a
> suspected sybil attack when over seven hundred identical relays
> appeared out of the blue).
Could you please say a little more about this case and "sybil attack[s]"?
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Orionjur Tor-admin
> <tor-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Damian Johnson wrote:
> > > The five relays Mike mentioned have been flagged as BadExits [1].
> > > Adding them to your ExcludeExitNodes isn't necessary. -Damian
> > >
> > > [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/badRelays
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Jan Weiher<jan@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > > At some point, we intend to shrink exit policies further as Tor scales
> > > > > to more decentralized schemes. Those exit policies will likely be
> > > > > represented as bits representing subsets of ports. When that time
> > > > > comes, we will very likely combine encrypted and unencrypted versions
> > > > > of ports together, removing this option entirely.
> > > > Sounds good. But what to do for now? Just creating a list of nodes which
> > > > only allow unencrypted traffic and put them into the ExcludeExitNodes
> > > > list? Shouldnt these nodes be excluded by default?
> > > > I'm unsure. I want to stress again that I'm not saying any operator is
> > > > doing anything evil, but I think we should find some way to avoid nodes
> > > > which have such weird exitpolicies.
> > > >
> > > > best regards,
> > > > Jan
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> > Is it possible to publish a list of bad-exits for copypasting it to
> > /etc/torrc in addition to the above-mentioned list?
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