1M People Use Facebook Over Tor

Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by nocarrier on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:32PM (#11551451)

We generated many candidates beginning with facebook, so I don't recall when that one was found--it just happened to be the one that looked the best. There's a number of backup memorable domains that we kept the keypairs for just in case facebookcorewwwi gets compromised somehow.

I don't remember how long we ran it for, but IIRC we had enough candidates to stop after a week or two. I'm guessing something like 100-200M cpu hours?

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by noir_lord on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:06PM (#11553153)

It's awesome we live in a world where we can throw 100-200 million cpu hours at something of a whim.

That each of those cores are billions of times faster than my first PC just puts the icing on the cake.

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by wicket on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:20PM (#11552941)

Thanks for sharing! I'm now curious to know what the energy bill came to and whether it would make it to the list of most expensive domain names[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_...

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by danbruc on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:37PM (#11553024)

100M...200M core h, 10 W/core, 50 $/MWh and we get 50k...100k $.

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by evgen on Saturday April 23, 2016 @04:22AM (#11554690)

FWIW, we ran it on and off for about a month IIRC, as the cluster was put through its paces prior to going live. I also seem to remember Matt Jones doing a minor tweak to the scallion code to speed things up as well...

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