Tor Project Removes 13.5% of Current Servers For Running EOL Versions

'The Tor Project has removed from its network this week more than 800
servers that were running outdated and end-of-life (EOL) versions of
the Tor software. The removed servers represent roughly 13.5% of the
6,000+ servers that currently comprise the Tor network and help
anonymize traffic for users across the world. Roughly 750 of the
removed servers represent Tor middle relays, and 62 are exit relays --
where users exit the Tor network onto the world wide web after having
their true location hidden through the Tor network. The organization
said it plans to release a Tor software update in November that will
natively reject connections with EOL Tor server versions by default,
without any intervention from the Tor Project staff. "Until then, we
will reject around 800 obsolete relays using their fingerprints," the
Tor Project said in a statement this week.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/1853238

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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