Deal with the botnet that's overwhelming the Tor network (August 2013)

This is the master ticket for the various things we're trying for handling the 2M+ new Tor clients that appeared last week.

changed milestone to %Tor: unspecified

added component::core tor/tor milestone::Tor: unspecified priority::medium resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed tor-relay type::task labels

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Username: weuxel
Cc: N/A to norman@smash-net.org

The majority of tor bots i have looked at do not use custom clients, they are simply being distributed with the official tor binary and using it to connect to the network.

Trac:
Username: TM

I think we should un-child whichever tickets remain (I think that's just #9662 (moved)?) and close this one as done. We did indeed deal with it.

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Severity: N/A to Normal
Sponsor: N/A to N/A

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Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed

mentioned in issue #9662 (moved)

mentioned in issue #9670 (moved)

mentioned in issue #9671 (moved)

moved to tpo/core/tor#9657 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/core/tor#9670 (closed)