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Part of their reasoning for this warning is BND claims vast majority of relays are in 5 Eyes Alliance countries, and BND claims they told the 5 Eyes Alliance a
by hackermailman 9y ago
Part of their reasoning for this warning is BND claims vast majority of relays are in 5 Eyes Alliance countries, and BND claims they told the 5 Eyes Alliance a few years ago they should just run relays themselves until the odds are favored a Tor user ends up using spy agency relays.
- yborg 9y agoI've always assumed that once Tor was sufficiently popular that the majority of nodes would end up being attackers. NSA gets whatever money it wants, there must be entire server farms running Tor nodes for them. What has always surprised me is that someone hasn't tried to install Tor nodes into compromised IoT devices, etc. If a virus is installing millions of nodes in the wild, that might be enough to keep the network majority non-attacker. As it stands, NSA or China, or whoever just ends up buying the whole network.
- kuschku 9y agoYou just need to take Raspberry Pi Zero’s, install TOR nodes on them, and drop them anywhere with free WiFi and a working charger – so you can hide them in streetlights near starbucks, etc. That would be enough to get thousands of nodes. (And probably a bit less illegal, although still not legal)
- oneweekwonder 9y ago> What has always surprised me is that someone hasn't tried to install Tor nodes into compromised IoT devices, etc. If you had the skill to compromise the devices with a tor node. Won't you use that node in your own private "tor" network, instead of sharing it with the wild?