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I 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
by cjbprime 8y ago
I 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 8y 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 8y 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.)