Backup your full node folks!

In the (hopefully) unlikely event that a determined actor wipes out all the online nodes we need relatively up-to-date offline backups to restore from.

Look at the SolarWinds [1] attack or the XZ backdoor [2]. If an attacker can compromise enough nodes concurrently they can wipe them and force the whole network into a small surface area.

That doesn’t destroy the network but it would cause a major disruption and could make tor analysis easier among other things. It could perhaps also be used to wipe the last N blocks from the chain tip as part of a larger effort.

The more backups we have to restore from the less downtime the network might have.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_government_data_breach#Background

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

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