[tor-talk] Questions about Directory Authority Servers

[panoramix.druida]

Hi,
From my understanding when a Tor proxy is started it downloads a list of relays from one of the ten  Directory Authority Servers listed here:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:authority

Am I right?

If so who run these servers and how the people running them are chosen? I would like to know a bit on the governance on how this authority servers are chosen.

What could go wrong if one or more of these servers are compromise?

Thank you very much!

Panoramix

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