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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by nxzero on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:59PM (#12427142)
Would it be possible for Tor to detect sniffing by seeding the traffic with poison pills that ratted out anyone doing this in bulk?
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by j3097736 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:08PM (#12427180)
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by nxzero on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:19PM (#12427198)
Makes you wonder why Tor doesn't replicate this and send the nodes ghost traffic, poison pills, block the IPs, etc.
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by makomk on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:30AM (#12428913)
Last I heard, there was basically one guy handling all reports of malicious exit nodes, and I couldn't even get him to do anything about the ones very obviously intercepting traffic to Bitcoin wallets and injecting code that stole people's money
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by pjc50 on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:54AM (#12428995)
People are communicating with bitcoin wallets without end-to-end encryption?
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by paavokoya on Sunday September 04, 2016 @10:26PM (#12427757)
Sounds strenuous on an already slow network..
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by nbraud on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:51AM (#12430605)
There is automated tooling out there that is used to detect misbehaving exits, like ExitMap: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/phw/exitmap.git/
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by DaKnOb on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:02PM (#12427156)
This has been done in the past: researchers visited a uniquely generated URL from Tor and then recorded which Exit Nodes visited it again. You can find their work if you google it..
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by brownbat on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:46PM (#12427630)
https://chloe.re/2015/06/20/a-month-with-badonions/

"Chloe" visited unique web pages for a month last year, and also used unique credentials to log into a custom honeypot. Of the over 137,000 exit nodes tested, 15 attempted to use the credentials, 650 visited the unique websites.

Less than half of a percent, but definitely happening regularly enough to be an issue.

Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by dogma1138 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:02PM (#12427154)
Not really you can always mirror the wan/uplink port and do the capture on another box so even some time based / performance analysis won't show anything.
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by dkopi on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:25PM (#12427217)
Port mirroring means you can only be a passive eavesdropper. Attacks like SSL mitm wouldn't work because you actually have to intercept and modify the traffic
Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by dogma1138 on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:39AM (#12430830)
SSL MITM still won't work unless you want it to be very noticeable or you have very substantial resources.

Port mirroring is enough to capture SSL traffic and to break weak SSL keys or if you have compromised the key of the destination services (w/ some caveats like no forward secrecy etc.)

And it doesn't prevents you from executing MITM attacks from upstream or just doing specific MITM attacks from within the TOR exit node later on.

But overall there is nothing you can do to ensure that your TOR exit node, your VPN gateway or even your ISP isn't reading your traffic other than to use encrypted tunnels everywhere and even then you are for the most part only moving the problem upstream.

Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by unethical_ban on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:48AM (#12430881)
You can't silently mitm SSL unless you are trusted by the client.