Posted by: devnullius
« on: 08. September 2013., 09:26:51 »[/b][/i]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/05/tor_traffic_spike_botnet/Quote
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Some more snippets (copy paste) from that article:
Instead, Dingledine believes Tor client software was installed on millions of computers surreptitiously, "pretty much overnight," probably hidden inside some other, as-yet-undetermined software package.
"Since no large software or operating system vendors have come forward to tell us they just bundled Tor with all their users, that leaves me with one conclusion: somebody out there infected millions of computers and as part of their plan they installed Tor clients on them," he wrote.
"And finally, I still maintain that if you have a multi-million node botnet, it's silly to try to hide it behind the 4000-relay Tor network ... Another facet of solving this problem long-term is helping them to understand that Tor isn't a great answer for their problem." ®
(sigh - it's all so small scale in the end :/)
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