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Depends on the attacker -- if they're able to surveil the network upstream of the IP address they just learned, they could use timing analysis. i.e. if the att
by cjbprime 9y ago
Depends on the attacker -- if they're able to surveil the network upstream of the IP address they just learned, they could use timing analysis.
i.e. if the attacker is the FBI and they're trying to unmask visitors to an onion service, and they learned your IP address (and hence real life name) through this method, they can also confirm that you're visiting the site they're surveiling through correlating packet times leaving your interface and arriving at the surveiled server's.
Maybe there's a less dramatic way to do it too?
- kakarot 9y agoIt's my understanding that this exploit wouldn't work with a hidden service because there is no way for your machine to know how to connect to it directly and the connection must be established through the Tor network, unlike a regular website. Is this not the case?