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Date: Sat Jun  3 16:05:59 2006
From: naif at s0ftpj.org (Fabio Pietrosanti - naif)
Subject: Tool Release - Tor Blocker

Jason Areff
wrote:                                                                
> To mitigate most tor attackers we've written an apache module designed
> to give tor users a 403 error when visiting a specific website.  We
> suggest all administrators whom do not wish a malicious tor user to
> visit and possibly deface their website to enable the usage of this
> module. This may not get all attackers, but hopefully it raises the
> security bar just a little bit more to safeguard ourselves from hackers.

Why write code when you can use what already exists?

TORbl: http://www.ahbl.org/docs/torbl.php
Apache mod_access_rbl:  http://www.blars.org/mod_access_rbl.html

-naif

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