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SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago

Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?

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spencerflem 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.

I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end.

I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.

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986aignan an hour ago | parent [-]

> They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.

I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm.

And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly as well-mapped as the public web. That and some Anubis or other PoW would probably go far.

	▲	SV_BubbleTime 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Proof of work I get, but isn’t that like step2? If I’m hosting at some IP, I still need Anubis or something to serve up the challenge, so doesn’t that become the attack point?