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| Jan 13, 2017 at 3:07 | comment | added | Alexey Vesnin♦ | if you're concerned about even keeping an ip/cert/key lists - use tmpfs for your cache files, then after a poweroff it will be no physical trace of them | |
| Jan 13, 2017 at 2:57 | comment | added | Demented Old Circus Monkey | There are thousands of connection names and IP addresses with ports listed in the file. spacebeans 84.48.199.78 9049 9030, raspberrypi45 91.224.157.99 9001 9030, oscar 158.69.207.216 9001, DoctorBigCock 176.10.215.164 9090, earthling 80.73.242.142 443 80, Hypocrazy 83.247.78.90 9001 9030 etc. etc. etc. That appears to be a serious security violation. | |
| Jan 13, 2017 at 2:46 | comment | added | Demented Old Circus Monkey | Of course there’s no risk in deleting the files - that was never a concern. The question was about leaving them in place and the information they contain. After deleting the files then opening Tor to re-create them, there are hundreds of keys/certificates/whatever in the cache files. cached-descriptors.new even contains an IP address from Germany. There appear to be a lot of identifying names in cached-microdesc-consensus. Names like agentsmith, KDFrelayPorterRanch, thebigpenistorrelay, FordModelA, Frijtzwithketchup and on and on... | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 | comment | added | Alexey Vesnin♦ | There's no security risks in deleting these files, you don't have to worry. Even more - no connection/circuit related information is cached in any form in any file | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 0:20 | comment | added | Demented Old Circus Monkey | I was only concerned with security. The amount of space consumed isn’t even worth mentioning. As long as they don’t leave a trail I don’t care. I really didn’t think the development team would have been so sloppy as to leave a security risk that that, but I had to ask. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 20:12 | history | answered | Alexey Vesnin♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |