Re: [security-discuss] gnuradio project DoS attacks GNU wget users

[Richard Stallman]

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  > That's as easy as running tor with a configuration where you exclude
  > at least exit-nodes located in the USA. Then you will try to download
  > any file on one of the download locations of gnu, with a graphical
  > webbrowser - it does not have to be torbrowser - you pass it the
  > arguments to use the socks5 proxy of tor as described in the torproject
  > website documentation, and just trying to establish a connection to
  > ftp.gnu.org will fail with "Error: Bad IP connecting".

I asked the sysadmins to check this.
Thanks.

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