[tor-relays] do the 800+ UbuntuCore relays constitute a Sybil attack?

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Wed Nov 29 01:17:53 UTC 2017


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:06:11PM -0500, starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx wrote:
> The population of these has been climbing for more than a week and no-one has commented, which seems odd.  No contact provided.
> 
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/UbuntuCore

See this thread:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-August/010046.html

So they are not a single unified operator.

What fraction of consensus weights are they? I'm under the impression
they're running on refrigerators or whatever so most of them have crappy
connectivity.

--Roger



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