[tor-project] meek-google suspension

[Virgil Griffith]

> I managed to get some information on why meek-google got suspended on
> App Engine. There was a botnet that used Tor and the public meek
> instance for command communication. They shut it down for that reason.

My condolences.  Onion.link ran into this problem when attempting hosting
at universities (Caltech, MIT) as well as major CDNs (Cloudflare, etc.)  I
never found a way around it.  If you find one please share with the world.

-V

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:35 AM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:

> I managed to get some information on why meek-google got suspended on
> App Engine. There was a botnet that used Tor and the public meek
> instance for command communication. They shut it down for that reason. I
> still haven't gotten any kind of official communication from Google
> Cloud Platform.
>
> I wrote a guide on how people can set up their own personal instance.
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html
> I figure the botnet risk is far less this way, without a single central
> service to freeload off of. Though of course far fewer people will be
> able to follow these steps than were able to use a default
> configuration.
>
> Because I can't see just setting up a new account under the
> circumstances, I'm planning to ask the Tor Browser devs to remove the
> non-functional meek-google option.
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