>So you'd need lots of guards Can't edit my other reply. The operator in the OP runs 68 nodes. I did not look at each one, but it looks like most, if not all o

>So you'd need lots of guards Can't edit my other reply. The operator in the OP runs 68 nodes. I did not look at each one, but it looks like most, if not all of them are guard nodes. This article mentions someone running at least 10% of the guard capacity: https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-relays-on-the-tor-network-2f14198af548?source=---------5------------------ https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-... Tor's design obviously failed. Everyone can become a guard. You just need some patience. Also other nodes like DirAuths, bridges, fallback directories can discover Tor users.