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Mitigating DDoS Attacks Against Your Onion Service

Since October 30th we have been the recipient of an inconsistent DoS and DDoS attack. It first started on our main onion service for a couple of days then stopped and went to our main clearnet site and now it is back to our onion service.

Why would anybody attack us? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Your guess is as good as ours.

But it is happening to us and, from what you guys have let us know, it seems to be happening to you too.

First, let’s understand how DoS and DDoS attacks work and why it is so extremely hard to mitigate on an onion service. A little Information First (

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/tor-project-and-mozilla-making-it-harder-for-malware-to-unmask-users

Tor Project and Mozilla Making It Harder for Malware to Unmask Users Written by Joseph Cox Contributor

October 13, 2016 // 03:13 PM EST

Generally, the Tor network provides a high level of protection and anonymity for its users. So much so that law enforcement agencies, instead of attacking the network itself, have opted to hack individual users’ computers, or end-points. This way, investigators have learned Tor users’ IP addresses.

But the Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains the Tor software, and the team behind Mozilla’s Firefox, have quietly been working on improvements that, th

Just had an interesting thought for marketplace admins to chew on, but it would be a big change.

So get this: a brand new vendor on "DNM2.0" starts out paying, I dunno, maybe 5 or 6% commission to the marketplace on each sale, and maybe even as high as 10% to start out. Every week, their commission percentage is reduced by the market, say 0.05% each week (as an example). This gives a direct profit incentive to vendors to preserve their good name and reputation, and increases the costs of burning a name via exit scam or doxxing a customer or something. At 0.05% per week, that would take about two years to reach 0% commission (from 5% to start), which seems about right (maybe have it bottom o