[lbenes]

UPDATE: "But even though they are running thousands of new relays, their relays currently make up less than 1% of the Tor network by capacity. We are working now to remove these relays from the network before they become a threat, and we don't expect any anonymity or performance effects based on what we've seen so far." So hopefully this gets nipped in the trollish bud before anonymity is affected."

http://gizmodo.com/hackers-who-shut-down-psn-and-xbox-live-n...

[mrobot]

What was the maximum capacity over the entire attack?

Even if you held majority for just an hour, it seems you could still build a useful database of identities and their usage. I was trying to imagine how much just an hour Tor snapshot might be worth to somebody.

Maybe? Or no?

[sp332]

According to EFF analyst @evacide, they had about 3,000 nodes or 0.27% of the network. https://twitter.com/evacide/status/548640012925812736

[throwaway6543]

No, for two reasons. 1) new relays are capped at a low bandwidth for the first few days and 2) relays cannot become guard nodes (and therefore cannot identify real users' IPs) until they have been stable for at least 8 days

see: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay