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Where did Lizard Squad get 3000 relays?
Same machines they use for DDoSing?
welp, we could go buy 10k installs on a botnet and do the same thing, its not rocket science
Not correct at all. You would need to control a good chunk of the bandwidth, not relays.
you know what, I now believe the lizard squad works for the nsa in some fashion
How can one block the relays manually? I wouldn't worry too much.. it is more like testing for worst case scenario.
So... They have 3000 boxes Kim DotCom bribed them to stop the DDOS on PSN and XBOX live so now .. What do they do?
I don't know why they're bothering with Tor when they could do something crazy like bring down North Korea's internet
uhm, did I just read that those were google IPs they are using
Bringing http://www.NorthKoreaOffline.com isn't much of a challenge considering they have almost zero internets
lmfao, they are using google cloud IPs
https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/cgi-bin/whois.pl?ip=104.155.223.4
5Gbps is taking down NK right now according to Arbor Networks. Doesn't take much.
http://gfycat.com/ComposedFlawlessAzurewingedmagpie
What is that from?
Found it!
Nice.
Or alternatively, I am reminded of James "Kibo" Parry, who had a bot that continuously scanned USENET in the mid-90s. If you mentioned the word "Kibo" in any thread (in any of the thousands of newsgroups), he would be notified and soon after comment. He was something like an Internet diety you could invoke by saying his name.
the lizard nodes disappeared from torstatus.blutmagie.de
Yep, looks like TOR home was cleaned up from this kids using new years coupons to get VPS's.
No, that isn't sarcasm. Tor shoud've been shut down the day it began. If there wasn't Tor, there would be alot more pedophiles behind bars (where they should be)
Exactly, pedophiles and Snowden. Long live NSA.
Yeah let's also forbid no log VPNs, bitcoin, internet cafes, pre-activated sim cards, public wi-fi hotspots, private couriers, carrier pigeons, drones, PGP, truecrypt, ...
The 'Little Apps Privacy Cleaner' in your signature can also be used to allow pedophiles and terrorists to cover their tracks.. better take it down so you don't enable them further.
I agree, that sort of application should be immediately removed as it will allow pedophiles to remove their history.
/sarcasm
(Yes, I agree with @ihatetonyy, @ub3rstar is a hypocrite. He's also forgetting the fact that the Navy created TOR.)
That just means the navy are pedophile ;D
Maybe you need a history lesson @ub3rstar
Pedophiles were around long before Tor and they certainly don't need it to operate. They operated on Usenet using encryption for ages, and probably still do. Maybe we should eliminate SSL, PGP, ssh, etc and go back to good ol' cleartext and telnet and ftp for everything
That way we know nobody is hiding anything.
Please, think of the children!!!
You can exclude certain exit nodes from being used for your connections. See ExcludeExitNodes in 'man tor'. As all of these seem to use Google IPs, and those IPs are country coded to US, you can just do:
ExcludeExitNodes {US}This will ensure you never use any US-based exit nodes (which is a good idea anyways).
Oh, and yes you can force the specific entry, relay and exit nodes to be used. Look for "ExitNodes", "EntryNodes" and "StrictNodes" in the same man page, there's a lot of functionality to tune all of that. Of course some caveats (also described there).
Do carrier pigeons exist?
What I was trying to say is Tor's only use seems to be for illegal activities. The majority of people using other encryption methods (SSL, VPN, Proxies, etc) are doing it just because they don't want to be spied on or tracked. They're not doing it so noone can find out who they are because they're looking a child porn and/or buying or selling drugs online.
Its not the NSA, but signs do point to them being a state actor.
I don't know if I'd go that far. I don't know of any official word but these guys suggest they aren't so much a state actor so much as a bunch of teens...
Though, if they've all been doxxed/owned/arrested then I wonder who set up these nodes...
One of the major uses for VPNs isn't to mask the illegal distribution and downloading of copyrighted material?
Tor's only use is to keep users anonymous, much like VPN/proxies etc. Some of those anonymous users distribute childporn. I am not OK with that. I think it is horrific and the traffickers should be brought to justice. However I am not willing to sacrifice the anonymity and safety of dissidents, whistle blowers, freedom fighters, or anyone who is oppressed or forced to use such measures as Tor to avoid detainment, torture, and death.
Want to stop child trafficking/porn? Focus on finding missing and abused children--perhaps some of the money pissed away on non-violent drug offenders and raids on Tor nodes could be redirected towards much more heinous crimes
Many things point out to them as being teens (e.g. "undoxable" .com, or digitalgangster.com haha!), the funny thing is they were on darkode.com and I see they even have a subdomain there for their team, the admin of that forum was previously arrested by the FBI (I think in 2010 or 2009) and speculation was that now the FBI runs the forum like they did with darkmarket.ws (2006-2008).
That's not it's only use. It's used alot in countries that filter websites and in companies to allow their employees access to their internal network.
I agree.