Hacker group lizard squad taking over tor relays.

[GigaloRob]

http://gizmodo.com/hackers-who-shut-down-psn-and-xbox-live-now-attacking-t-1675331908

As stated it appears they have about half of them currently.

 

[pumpingiron22]

There doing it for the challenge.
I dont think it a good idea. But on the flip side maybe this will push tor towards a better version of it's self.
Great article find GigaloRob.

 

[Millard]

Not currently a threat:

But it's not clear that the apparent Lizard Squad nodes are currently a threat. According to an explanation posted on a Tor blog last year, new relays go through an approval process that lasts several days during which their bandwidth is restricted.
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In an interview conducted over an online chat program, a person claiming to be associated with Lizard Squad told The Post that the group now controlled half of the nodes on the overall Tor network, but conceded that only a very minimal amount of traffic was being routed through those nodes.
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The point of the project, the person said, was to demonstrate structural weaknesses in how Tor operates. While this influx was clearly marked and thus easy to block, the person argued, there might be ways to do it surreptitiously if they used randomized information for the volunteer servers.

"Add the nodes to the network over the period of a month or so and there'd be no practical way of identifying our [nodes]," the person said.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...down-gaming-networks-are-now-going-after-tor/

 

[GigaloRob]

Good read. Yeah it appears they are restricted at the moment.

 

[S0l1d_Tries]

this stuff is mean comical, its funny how "hacker wars" are so big now. yet how many of them are playing each other or have same people in both groups. lulz