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		brokenparser on Jan 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays Some of the attacks might actually be due to ISP misconfiguration or legal (court order) compliance. For instance, The Pirate Bay is blocked by several ISPs and exit nodes in their network would inadvertently be unable to route traffic to that site.

willvarfar on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

Most of the attacks such as HTTPS MitM are not ISP misconfigurations ;)

Indeed, they list the DNS censorship separately:

> We also found exit relays which were unintentionally interfering with network traffic because they were subject to DNS censorship.

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