Re: [tor-relays] Network Scan through Tor Exit Node (Port 80)

On Tuesday 29 March 2011 21:11:33 Mike Perry wrote:

Thus spake Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) (lists@infosecurity.ch): So then when a website or ad server wants to DoS a tor user, they just introduce a tight open+close XMLHTTPRequest loop in some JS?

With the URLs being a bunch of different IP addresses that don't run webservers. But as you said, the exit node will send a "closed for policy reasons" back to the client, who will pick another exit node, which maybe doesn't have this policy.

cmeclax