Tor accuses CloudFlare of blocking its anonymizing network
Not long ago, the content delivery provider CloudFlare claimed that a whopping 94 percent of the requests it gets from people using the Tor anonymizing network are malicious. It needs strict, Tor-specific security measures (such as demanding that visitors see CAPTCHAs) to protect its website customers against attacks, the company says. Well, the Tor team isn't having any of it — it's accusing CloudFlare of both mischaracterizing Tor users and blocking innocents in the name of overzealous security.
