An administrator of a cluster of Tor-exitnodes and a large number of mirrors has the control over the systems is lost, and his account is removed. In any case, a part of the servers at the Dutch hosting provider Quickly.
In the night from Sunday to Monday warned Thomas White that he over the management of the exitnodes was lost and that users are services, and the mirrors no longer had to use. Just before the connection lost, there was a usb device in the systems plugged in, he observed. “I know from experience that this type of activity is similar to that of the police as that servers take and search,” says White.
In later updates the differentiated he that image by pointing out that there is no direct evidence that any of the servers in the hands of the police. Further highlights the administrator that the systems now on the black list and that there is no user data on the respective systems. The hosting provider of the systems is the in Schiedam, the netherlands-based provider Quickly, which offers services under the name of SnelServer. The hosting company denies that there are usb devices in the systems are inserted or that there systems have been seized.
Why and how he lost control, know White not. Saturday warned Tor developer Roger Dingledine that there are indications that the Tor network attacked. It may be possible to directory authorities, important links in the Tor network, be confiscated. Further details about the potential attacks gave Dingledine not.
Update, 10.50: The hostingpartij Quickly late Tweakers know that the blocking of the account of the administrator was a result of the security policies of the company. The customer would be a time limit for verification accidentally have let expire and then logged in with a kvm. “Some kvm’s to make accessing the ports, a usb event, that is what the customer has established,” said Fast. Now is the account of the man released again.