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You’re not misunderstanding Tor. Indeed, if you control more than 50% of the nodes then you can feasibly deanonymize clients. Tor circuits tend to go through m
by als0 7y ago
You’re not misunderstanding Tor. Indeed, if you control more than 50% of the nodes then you can feasibly deanonymize clients.
Tor circuits tend to go through many countries and rarely do they go through the same country twice. Not sure if this is part of the node selection criteria. But if you can’t have two nodes within a circuit go through the same country, and someone identifies you, then you’re dealing with a hell of a global adversary.
FWIW I think many people are concerned more about being monitored by their local governments rather than foreign ones.
- viraptor 7y ago> But if you can’t have two nodes within a circuit go through the same country, and someone identifies you, then you’re dealing with a hell of a global adversary. You can do that with a credit card and AWS. Setting up server presence in multiple countries is trivial. Setting up enough of them is expensive.
- x220 7y agoSure, but if the CIA, NSA, FBI, UK, China, and Russia are all trying to control nodes, they keep each other from getting a useful share of the nodes. There are many parties that would want to deanonymize the traffic.