On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:51AM -0400, grif...@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There was an unpublished study in Nevada by some grad students who setup a few malware defense appliances on the end of a tor exit relay.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. They never published their research because they either couldn't get ethics board clearance at their university and/or because of the Univ. of Colorado exit relay issue at PETS. I read a draft of the paper, which was subsequently pulled from publication. I've talked to a few organization who allow Tor exits, but track good/bad traffic (by their definition) who say 3% sounds high from what they have seen. None of these orgs will go on the record, but they are some of the largest social network and ecommerce sites in the world. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
