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This must be one of the greatest examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] in action that I've seen on HN in recent times. Pretty much everything in your analys
by Confiks 8y ago
This must be one of the greatest examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] in action that I've seen on HN in recent times. Pretty much everything in your analysis is misinformed, and you even explicitly mention in an aside that you are "not too familiar with Tor", but still state everything with an almost absolute certainty.
You could have made the argument that allowing a single bridge makes it a bit easier to do traffic analysis attacks against users (instead of having to do DPI), but the ISP interception model is pretty much what Tor tries to protect you against, as long as that ISP isn't also (aided by) a global passive adversary.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- Rjevski 8y ago> you are "not too familiar with Tor", but still state everything with an almost absolute certainty. When it comes to security I'd rather err on the safe side and call it insecure until proven otherwise. In any case, even if we assume the Tor part is secure, this is still unnecessary at best, since it requires you to run a local Tor daemon. You can run one on a normal SIM, and probably end up better off since you're not putting yourself on a hypothetical watch-list by purchasing such a product.
- saurik 8y agoI can run that on a normal SIM, but then I am not sure that all of the traffic from my phone is going through it at all times: the thing this SIM card does that is interesting is cause the phone to be unable to send any traffic off of the phone other than through Tor.