[tor-talk] answers of Ms Kroes on EP questions

[andrew at torproject.is]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:37:54AM +0200, rejo at zenger.nl wrote 4.3K bytes in 109 lines about:
: The Commission is committed to maintaining the open and neutral character of the Internet. At the same time the Commission strictly respects the legislation on the protection of personal data. The Commission's public consultation on ‘specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet’ is open to everyone. The Commission understands and respects that citizens may prefer to stay anonymous when accessing websites hosted on Europa.
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: Nevertheless, the Commission has the duty to take all the necessary measures to ensure a high rate of availability of its websites for all citizens. The Commission therefore needs to ensure the reliability and security of its networks and websites (and those it manages for other institutions) against (cyber-)attacks. In this context the Commission takes all the measures deemed necessary to mitigate risks and counteract attacks that occur, taking account of the technical specificities of the latter.
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: Personal data of respondents to the Commission's public consultation is strictly protected in line with EU data protection legislation. For transparency purposes the responses to the public consultation questionnaire will be published. However, all respondents have the possibility to indicate after each question, whether their response contains confidential information. If the respondent mentions that the answer is confidential, it will not be published.
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Thanks for sharing the response.

Can they share the data about 'cyber-attacks' and why Tor is chosen as
a technology to be blocked? I'm interested in learning the details of
quantity and quality of attacks via Tor against the Europa infrastructure.

My guess is they don't have any data and just bought some software or hired a
3rd party to 'protect' their sites. This protection includes a category
called 'proxies' which is selected by default. Within this 'proxies'
category are some long-running Tor exit relays. There was a period of
time, short as it was, where they didn't block Tor exit relays. Can they
share the details of attacks seen, if any, during this period?

How do they handle botnets and the infected computers of European citizens
trying access their site?

Ironically, they're all about an open Internet so long as this doesn't
inconvenience them. 'Cyber-attacks' are the official reason China, Iran,
Burma, and others censor their Internet in order to protect their
citizenry.

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Andrew
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