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thank you so much for staying publicly communicative
it's weird that they are able to ddos an onion. i thought tor had pow mitigations? but this is good learning for TOR to better mitigate ddos i guess
i honestly think this is a fed or similar attack. trocador is a great service and they want people to not have anonymity or freedom.
stay strong team.
I want to know about this too. Why didn't you use HiddenServicePoWDefensesEnabled?
nobody else noticed the inconsistencies?! They are running a business, they need to comply. And now playing stupid! Getting free ads with FUD. This doesn’t add up, indeed.
Edit: It does make a great deal of sense, however, if you think the big bros (not troc) are trying to sell "Cybersecurity". Before they start selling, they create the need first. It works the same way every time: they sell you wars, peace, vaccines, security, privacy, co2 certs or even your own slavery. What to us looks like false flags
to them its all good business practice.
We are just updating the community to let people know that services are disrupted right now, not working 100%. We need to be open about this otherwise users will complain asking why we did this or that, so we are just being transparent. We also need to let users know there are fake websites running because we have already seen some users lose money to these scams, so this is quite important. About what you also said, yes, many other onion websites are suffering attacks as well. I believe eXch was suffering DDoS too, among others.
I respect that. But I am also around long enough: Flooding attacks never lasted long in the past and did not cause permanent disruption. Iet's not call it hacking, its plain old overloading. After 3-5 days its over usually and admins learnt a lot in that time. (Run a stressnet node!)
And BTW trocador.app is loading as fast as ever here. All the best, your customers just need patience.
Thanks! Yes, we are improving our firewall rules and this week we expect everything to be running smooth again.
Also look into PoW captchas as well, in case it helps :)
https://mcaptcha.org/
Someone said we should run a separate server to work as a load balancer and generate these captchas as they might consume processing from the server. We'll look into it. Thanks!
haha i was literally about the suggest the exact same thing 💙
but yeah, basically become your own Cloudflare :)