Tor network is experiencing a network-wide DDoS attempt impacting the performance of the network, which includes both onion services and non-onion services traffic.

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I keep hearing about how our governments wants to do something big to the Internet soon. This may be a first step.

The attack started 10 days ago. I do not know how big it is, but given the resources you need to last that long, this could well be a government level attack.

Also given that even after this time people at Tor still haven't find a potential mitigation solution, I assume that this is an attack on a large scale.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

What does it mean to "scrub the Internet"?

I keep hearing that phrase. I forgot it for my last comment.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The internet is being sanitized, unapproved sites are deranked or even delisted. Related to the dead internet theory.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

In the past, the FBI attacked the network in order to identify the people behind Silk Road and a lot of other illegal websites. You don't think it's something like that again?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Time will tell.