Most recent edit on 2008-06-06 06:23:21 by NextGens [Add a note about the attacks on the website]
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22 December 2007: Infrastructure: the website has been compromized
Edited on 2008-03-29 18:52:38 by MatthewToseland [frost]
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Late 2007 onwards: Ongoing DoS on Frost. Not only the ALICE bot, but also flooding most boards with large numbers of bogus, unparseable, invisible messages (around 30k-60k messages per week).
Edited on 2007-08-21 17:42:40 by MatthewToseland [great wall -> golden shield]
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August 2005: Link layer: Testing shows the Golden Shield blocks Freenet 0.5 outgoing connections (this is not NAT, we could connect, but the connections got killed when they sent the 0.5 session bytes). If we told you more, we'd have to kill you. :)
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August 2005: Link layer: Testing shows the Great Wall blocks Freenet 0.5 outgoing connections (this is not NAT, we could connect, but the connections got killed when they sent the 0.5 session bytes). If we told you more, we'd have to kill you. :)
Edited on 2007-08-21 17:42:04 by MatthewToseland [mention blocking of website]
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Ages ago: China's Golden Shield has blocked our website since time immemorial, along with any other site containing the term "freenet". There are many meanings of "freenet", and it seems all of them are bad from their perspective. This includes both keyword blocking and DNS poisoning (dyndns IPs are also scrambled, which affects some of our users).
Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2007-08-21 17:23:48 by MatthewToseland [initial commit]
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Actual Attacks
For a theoretical discussion of what is possible, see
here. This page lists actual hostile attacks which we are reasonably confident have occurred, against the network or against our infrastructure.
August 2005: Link layer: Testing shows the Great Wall blocks Freenet 0.5 outgoing connections (this is not NAT, we could connect, but the connections got killed when they sent the 0.5 session bytes). If we told you more, we'd have to kill you. :)
Most of 2007: Frost: Spam on various boards. Anonymous floods, signed floods, Message of Death attacks (some zeroday i.e. discovered by spammer), duplicating real messages on different boards, most recently an ALICE bot answering every post not its own. Strangely enough he isn't attempting to flood the boards: his attack does however make life extremely difficult for newbies. Oldies can just turn off CHECK and only see messages from their friends and which their friends have replied to. The strategic effect is to choke off the flow of newbies into Frost, without making it such an urgent issue that it is immediately dealt with.
21 August 2007: Infrastructure: Email server:
DoS/subscribe random addresses