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I've seen what I remember to be credible information, possibly leaks via something like Wikileaks, saying that there was a tremendous number of US government ow
by whamlastxmas 7y ago
I've seen what I remember to be credible information, possibly leaks via something like Wikileaks, saying that there was a tremendous number of US government owned Tor nodes. To the point that it was likely your traffic wasn't actually anonymous. I wish I could remember where I saw it.
- derefr 7y agoYou can see at least the first half of any Tor circuit, though, and more-often-than-not I get mostly nodes with IPs from European countries. Are those US-Government-owned nodes, that just happen to be in Europe?
- ColanR 7y agoThat would be insanely easy for the US government to set up.
- the-pigeon 7y agoPhysical location is not really relevant to who owns a node. Most countries allow anyone to setup a company and operate servers. Any government organization with a small amount of resources can setup a front company and turn on a server.
- LMYahooTFY 7y agoI also wish you could remember, as my memory is something along the lines of they ran a few nodes on on EC2 for like a few weeks. I'll try to find a source when I'm off mobile.
- codesushi42 7y agoThat doesn't matter unless they operated all nodes in the routing chain.
- schoen 7y agoOperating the entry and exit on a circuit is almost as bad as operating the entry, middle, and exit.