[tor-relays] AS: "ColoCrossing" - 28 new relays

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:54:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote:
> it is pretty obvious from their fingerprints that they are a group of relays that aim to be
> at a certain position on the DHT ring to become the HSDir of someone's onion

Right. We have bumped them out of the network, along with some others
that looked similar. They are all new relays so they didn't have much
weight or influence yet.

One thing to be careful of, in this particular situation, is that when
you see a set of k relays with very similar fingerprints, it's hard to
distinguish "there are k jerks that need to be removed from the network"
from "there are k-1 jerks, and one original possibly-unrelated relay
that for whatever reason they decided to imitate".

(In this case it looks like the former.)

Thanks,
--Roger