15:55:03 <MRL-discord> <Mitchell PKT> test
15:57:30 <nioc> passed
15:58:11 <MRL-discord> <Mitchell PKT> Ah good, bridge at discord.noncesense.org works again
16:03:23 <MRL-discord> <Mitchell PKT> h/t @n3ptune
20:43:51 <moneromooo> We have had a fairly large number of asshole peers on the network for quite a while enow. I suspect they're spies.
20:44:06 <moneromooo> They all point to each other in their peer lists
20:44:43 <moneromooo> A good research subject would be... how to ensure that a node selects peers to connect that mostly avoids those.
20:45:12 <moneromooo> Actually... simpler: assign a "asshole score" to any peer, which can then be used to inform other decisions.
20:45:47 <moneromooo> It's been a while since I looked, but IIRC their peer lists aren't 100% identical, just mostly.
20:46:27 <moneromooo> So some kind of distance metric between peers which looks at their peer lists (knowing that we only receive partial peer lists) might work.
20:46:54 <moneromooo> That can only be calcualted once we've connected thouhg.
20:47:05 <moneromooo> Other ideas welcome.
20:49:19 <moneromooo> Isthmus: quantum
20:54:39 <selsta> AFAIK they also mirror your own block height.
21:39:13 <UkoeHB_>  Is the main problem they drop transactions during stem?
21:39:55 <moneromooo> The main problem is probably they spy on us.
21:40:12 <moneromooo> The proximate problem is some people get stuck with only those and can't sync.
21:40:38 <moneromooo> IIRC they used to relay txes (or blocks ? this was a log time ago).
21:41:09 <moneromooo> Funny that. A log time ago puts even more more emphasis than a long time ago...
22:08:14 <zkao> what is the relation of them being densely connected among themselves and spying?
22:13:39 <lederstrumpf> i.e. what practical advantage wrt. spying would these colluding spies gain by connecting to each other through monero's p2p layer?