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> With enough intercepts, they can correlate traffic at various relays, and connected users and servers. Exactly. If enough ISPs cooperate and share traffic da
by eighthnate 9y ago
> With enough intercepts, they can correlate traffic at various relays, and connected users and servers.
Exactly. If enough ISPs cooperate and share traffic data, then you can correlate traffic. Especially if it is a low traffic. The more traffic, then more difficult it becomes but even then it is still doable.
> And you can add VPNs to the mix.
As long as the VPNs themselves are legal ( china has started to ban them ) and they aren't compromised or they aren't government created VPNs to secretly track you or the VPNs themselves are honest. Nothing prevent the VPNs from collecting your traffic data and selling it to governments.
- mirimir 9y agoISPs don't need to cooperate. The NSA just hacks into them. We know that from Snowden documents. You can't trust anyone. But with nested chaining -- whether it's Tor relays or VPN servers -- you can distribute trust. And the more stuff you nest, the more adversaries need to compromise.