[tor-relays] Combined relay and hidden service, good idea or not?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:59:25PM -0700, Dave Warren wrote:
>  Even if Tor didn't supply any relay
> statistics, a curious and enterprising individual could "explore" by seeing
> what happens to a particular onion when one launches a DoS attack against an
> external IP that one believes might be connected to the .onion service.

Yep. If you want to go a step further, check out this paper:
https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/#remote-traffic-pets12
where they investigate inducing congestion on a target IP address
to learn *what web page it's loading*.

Turns out the attack is only effective in certain situations, but
the fact that it's worth taking seriously at all is bad news for
the Internet as a whole.

--Roger