> I believe we currently control almost 50% of overall Tor network and over 70% of exit nodes.
This was one of the technical misunderstanding that was made during that "attack", as it assumed all nodes were treated equally. In contrast, the tor network look at attributes such as up-time in order to shape and redirect traffic flows for improved performance. When the network is increased by 70% from newly created nodes, those new nodes only get a small portion of the overall traffic until they have had time to established themselves.
They do say later in the interview that they could had added the nodes slowly over time, but that sounds implausible with a bot network or one paid by stolen CC. Those kind of computers are not known for up-time, especially if they generate a lot of noise.
This was one of the technical misunderstanding that was made during that "attack", as it assumed all nodes were treated equally. In contrast, the tor network look at attributes such as up-time in order to shape and redirect traffic flows for improved performance. When the network is increased by 70% from newly created nodes, those new nodes only get a small portion of the overall traffic until they have had time to established themselves.
They do say later in the interview that they could had added the nodes slowly over time, but that sounds implausible with a bot network or one paid by stolen CC. Those kind of computers are not known for up-time, especially if they generate a lot of noise.