-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 BBC picked up a story on this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35614335
Glad the good professor was able to spot this one :P On 19/02/16 07:50, Jeremy Rand wrote: > On 02/19/2016 01:44 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: > > On 2016-02-19 > 01:40, Jeremy Rand wrote: On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, > > CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: > >>>> > >>>> That chat program you are referring to would be ricochet IM > >>>> > > > Well, there was something called TorChat which fits that > > description, but TorChat hasn't gotten any security updates or > > maintenance in years, so Ricochet is pretty clearly preferable. > > > Cheers, -Jeremy Rand > > > I also know latest version of Bitcoin Core has capability of > > automatically creating .onion host, maybe the testing of that could > > have been result in spike as well? Though I am leaning more towards > > botnet or malware being the likely reason behind jump in hidden > > services. > > > It's been a while since I looked at that Bitcoin Core feature, but I'm > pretty sure it only creates a .onion when it detects that Tor is > already running when Bitcoin Core boots. So I think it's unlikely to > generate even close to as many new .onion hosts as we're seeing now. > A botnet seems more likely to me. Of course, I have no actual data to > back up my guess. > > Cheers, > -Jeremy Rand -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWx8WAAAoJEDktq+nBATNfQYEP/0klwk3P011CE1XfoqM8ZsTr Pq3MDxn1XDc8ZyVKITtHtwvXh3kDiaJVGr37KF0m61iYMQGbm5y1X7VZALkyL1/4 JU4gZtE2ee0cFw6jBVHah96jR/kPFZUgmleRyolLtJyEKukjVx3JmidOCwxRM2ox zdhojojJQ8kdBem/FSkOE3EvTcYURk3KcScjsid6IIcl6xJijyZC1S9iTkjdyAKe VqIGqoi5dVYfHESAerxrfMjJ3fWNh1g4oU9TkmFPRE+Fk17Qmrv27SEYNMxIgh4Y vAzO5K/klOL7nbAWhg+geAqU73hKNpL0VjM3ijiAP0eqOM1yORjdPL5ZGbLKorMf 1lg7yvYUCZYO38RYULVBrXZVVWVkimUSsg22aPxToOphgEr2v+tzu/hXSMNIz1zk ehwbUXxy0tb+27Qo8qYtSB/A1kbHQVmyBuO1lfkaTPPI1T2V5dC0fb2p+M5iBW7v yfD9vAcg40yTao3hzQSSCcpBg7OB5nawbeOXdZWB+FS5eKdbDmIHdAFfM7reuyqf m2fA/UFCLb3W2MKFG8Ij/ecM5jcYc/mhoijmo2CvnLyfypP8KSQ02BTIT1vOyifN YVfQACNiF/zdaNkFbDc5AAoGZPSrkz/oukErRD1P8Dzdeqw7mMNeXcCs6sU4ktTb qwegymhSbqmKezdx/oVt =1acE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
