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> Tor is NOT good at keeping you private from government This is a bold claim. Would you mind backing it up?
by AnaniasAnanas 7y ago
> Tor is NOT good at keeping you private from government
This is a bold claim. Would you mind backing it up?
- cjbprime 7y agoI wouldn't agree with the claim, but it might be referring to Tor's weaknesses against country or global passive adversaries -- timing attacks correlating your requests with the site's responses. If you can log everyone's bandwidth and can get ISPs to tell you which human is using Tor, metadata anonymity goes away.
- AnaniasAnanas 7y agoIsn't this true for pretty much every privacy tool (i2p, freenode, gnunet, etc) though? I don't think that any of them can protect you if an adversary can monitor the whole internet.
- cjbprime 7y agoYes. There are some research networks like Vuvuzela that add noise to resist timing attacks but they aren't common. The reason it's still a valid criticism is that people suggest that Tor has this resistance in threads like this one. :) (Of course, you don't need to monitor the whole Internet if it's intra-country traffic that you're interested in.)
- sbhn 7y agoAll tor exit nodes. https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py?ip=1.1.1.1 https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py?ip=1... Tor is a beacon
- AnaniasAnanas 7y agoYes, what about it? This is a list of the IP addresses of the exit nodes, it is useful if you want to start blocking tor traffic in your site (though I am against that). This is not a list of the IP addresses of the onion sites nor of the users, in addition to that exit nodes are not used when you connect to an onion site.