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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by abqio on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:39PM (#8800274)
They're set up to be exit nodes, they just don't have the exit flag yet.
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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by mperret on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:56PM (#8800334)
Quite a few seem to have the exit flag now. Only glanced through the first 500 or so, but it looked to be about 50 which had the exit flag
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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by ChristianBundy on Friday December 26, 2014 @04:32PM (#8800487)
How is that possible? I was under the impression that it took a long time to be a real exit node.
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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by AlyssaRowan on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:27PM (#8800706)
No stable flags. No guard flags, either.

Google will probably shut them down quicker than the consensus gives them those. They are tiny; it's an attempted Sybil, but it's worse than GCHQ's one that used Amazon nodes.

Edit: Down.

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Re:Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor by abritishguy on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:15PM (#8800652)
And without that flag they might as well not be exit nodes - it takes 88 days to be approved.
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