I think you don't understand what Tor is or how it works. Tor is a way to anonymize its users. You have no way to analyze a packet until it reaches an exit node, and you have no way to analyze that packet if it's done over https, and you have no way to block an ip from that exit node because it comes from another node where plenty of other ips are coming from. If you start blocking this node, then the spammer can choose a different path and come from another node, or just change his exit node.
tl;dr: what you are saying goes against Tor's principles.
> what you are saying goes against Tor's principals
That's why it will probably never be cleaned up. That's also why more and more people will probably block access from Tor. CloudFlare says they get a 95% attack rate from it. A blog post the other day said FotoForensics gets about 91% attacks from Tor.
No one is going to put up with 91% attacks for long. And if that means Tor becomes it's own walled garden that doesn't 'interact' with the public internet, so be it.
>> I think it's clear he understands how it works.
> Agree to disagree :)
I know very well how it works thank you very much. It doesn't mean I have to like it.
Since you're apt to throwing around unfounded accusations, I'll join the party. I have more experience than you do at running large networks, dealing with fraud, dealing with abuse, dealing with malware, and dealing with law enforcement/government agents. The Internet has enough problems with the well-run networks that actually care. We could care less about Tor users that might be blocked.
I think you don't understand what Tor is or how it works. Tor is a way to anonymize its users. You have no way to analyze a packet until it reaches an exit node, and you have no way to analyze that packet if it's done over https, and you have no way to block an ip from that exit node because it comes from another node where plenty of other ips are coming from. If you start blocking this node, then the spammer can choose a different path and come from another node, or just change his exit node.
tl;dr: what you are saying goes against Tor's principles.