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

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From: nusenu <nusenu at openmailbox.org>
To: tor-dev at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Should cloud-hosted relays be rejected?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 19:23:35 +0200

> > It has other benefits. Those big providers see a huge amount of exit
> > traffic and can potentially do correlation against that.
>
> I disagree on 'huge'.
> If you worry about i.e. Amazon hosting to much exit bandwidth you have
> to worry about many other* ASes first, and even then, banning them all
> completely (exit prob = 0) isn't probably a wise strategy.

I'm not talking about those providers hosting exit nodes. I'm talking about general web sites and resources hosted by them and the traffic that goes there.