On 09.09.2017 21:54, Dennis Emory Hannon wrote:

Because you don’t agree with the way I’m marketing my network I must be malicious and this must be a “social engineering” attack?

Your so-called marketing is in fact spamming harvested Tor contact addresses, as my logs clearly show (technically they only show the attempts, since you are already blacklisted). As my grandma might have said: We don't want any. ;-)

-Ralph

Hi Dennis,

In case you've been asleep under some accursed rock for the last couple of years, let's get some things straight:

As benevolent Tor exit operators, we care a lot about our users' privacy. We choose to log as little as possible, and to ensure the security of the servers of our Tor relay. Ideally, we run our own nameservers because it's better that (nominally) only we have access to those particular requests.

What we don't do is use random nameservers that we find on a mailing list. That would just be callous and irresponsible. Why would we want a large organization such as our ISP or Google to see each and every request, let alone someone not even a little accountable publicly?

So when you send this spam around, for that is what it is - not even on the public Tor mailing lists - but privately, how can you possibly expect people to believe it's anything other than malicious?

Some other things I've observed about this whole episode which are rather odd and concerning:

1. You've clearly changed your sink-hole telephone number since the last round of spam.

2. You edited yourself onto Wikipedia to associate yourself with a larger, historic group of DNS servers. [1]

3. You've answered Tor StackExchange queries in order to advertise your nameservers, but in a misleading manner. [2]

4. You only talk on the Tor mailing lists when you've been called out, or to advertise your nameservers underneath there in some strange bout of "reconciliation".

5. One of the nameservers is also a Tor relay (only open on port 53, DNS). That's seems like a stupid thing to do. It would seem like a bad idea to attract (larger amounts of) traffic to your non-exit that isn't from other Tor relays. I'm genuinely confused by why you chose to do this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network [2] https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/670/good-dns-services-for-exit-nodes...

The question I'd ask is: what are your ~really~ running these nameservers for? At least stop the spam, please!

Dennis Emory Hannon:

So let me get this straight - Because you don't agree with the way I'm marketing my network I must be malicious and this must be a "social engineering" attack? Seriously guys, put away the tin foil hats. I truly DON'T want to know what people on tor are browsing.

If you 'd like to waste your time on baseless assumptions go right ahead.

-Dennis

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