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		986aignan 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android user... > They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm. And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly as well-mapped as the public web. That and some Anubis or other PoW would probably go far.

SV_BubbleTime 16 days ago [–]

Proof of work I get, but isn’t that like step2?

If I’m hosting at some IP, I still need Anubis or something to serve up the challenge, so doesn’t that become the attack point?

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