Re: [tor-dev] Should cloud-hosted relays be rejected?

Philipp Winter transcribed 2.6K bytes:

The harm caused by cloud-hosted relays is more difficult to quantify. Getting rid of them also wouldn't mean getting rid of any attacks. At best, attackers would have to jump through more hoops.

Does anyone know which attacks were carried out via relays running on cloud platforms?

The only one I remember was the "One cell is enough" [0] tagging attack in 2009, but IIRC, their malicious/colluding exit was run on PlanetLab (also, via the nature of the attack, it probably wouldn't have caused any harm to real users). Were there any others?

[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough