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How to prevent the Mevade botnet from abusing the Tor network?

If the botnet admin decides to transmit data, maybe he alone could bring down the whole Tor network. The NTor circuit-level handshake in Tor 0.2.4 solved some problems, but the botnet is still ...
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Can Tor connections between hidden services be aggregated using ifenslave? (... and might Mevade be doing this?)

Using ifenslave on two endpoint Linux servers, it's possible to aggregate (aka bond or team) multiple tun or tap interfaces (e.g., tun0, tun1, ...) into a single link, combining bandwidth (less ...
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