Michel Py <michel(_at_)arneill-py(_dot_)sacramento(_dot_)ca(_dot_)us> wrote
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:55:27 +0000:
| That is true to the extent that I counted myself several times and the
| last time I counted (this year) out of the known 1827 Tor exit nodes,
| 896 were marked as having "malicious" activities; it goes over the
| half mark on a regular basis. This data is not public (yet) but it
| will be soon, it's not based on Cloudflare data. I'm not the only one
| who has observed it either; there are reasons why both attack
| mitigation solution providers and end-networks filter and/or block
| Tor.
|
| This is not guesswork.
What did you count and how? Let's start with the very easy part and see
if we should go further later: At what point in time did the Tor network
have 1827 exit relays? The Tor Metrics site [0] suggests that this has
never happened [1].
[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/
[1]
https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html?start=2008-01-01&end=2016-03-16&flag=Exit