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In that spirit, emails (when discovered on a device) are also unique IDs. Even if someone's email is The-Dog@someprovider_dot_com authorities can still track th
by HenryBemis 6y ago
In that spirit, emails (when discovered on a device) are also unique IDs. Even if someone's email is The-Dog@someprovider_dot_com authorities can still track that this mailbox was accessed by IP x.x.x.x and this IP is provided to phone number 555-12345 which belongs to Henry Bemis.
It will take the authorities a bit more time (i.e. someone throws away their burner phone and authorities hack it)(with the assumption that phone numbers/SIM activations are provided using valid ID as it happens in many countries).
- fsflover 6y agoYou can access email only through Tor and they will never know your real IP.
- nix23 6y agoWrong...they probably don't know your IP..but a agency that has global surveillance in place, can find your source IP quite easy.
- fsflover 6y agoAll typical attacks on Tor are known for many years already. If you follow the advises from the Tor website, it will be very hard (nearly impossible) to find you. What do you mean by "quite easy"?
- nix23 6y agoBy quite easy i mean, when you have global surveillance in place. All tor-nodes are public all tor-exits are public, if your system can track connections from one node to another node and then the exit-node everything is clear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance#Infiltration_of_anonymous_networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance#Infiltrati... Edit: And that from netzpolitik (highly trusted german source) under 'A global passive adversary' that's the interesting part: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/ https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-...
- fsflover 6y agoIt is enough to have at least a few independent relays to cover the trace. Everyone who can should be running a relay node at home I guess. Also we generally need more participants in Tor of course. There is also I2P network, which is even harder to break (unless someone owns practically all nodes there).
- nix23 6y agoWell i run a node (not exit) and yes it's better then nothing, but to fully trust Tor is a big nono, i said nothing else. Protections from private company or country's yes..but protection from GCHQ/NSA probably not. And no you can trace it thru the ISP's, the problem is the latency, Connection from here to there in that millisecond trace one...and so on.
- fsflover 6y agoIf you are speaking about the timing attack, then you should consider I2P. It makes them significantly harder. In general, I agree that if your enemy is NSA, you can do very little. But you can make their life harder, and you should.
- nix23 6y agoI2P is absolutely great, a shame that it's no covered so much and Freenet was once also a cool project...i see we are on the same page ;) Edit: GnuNet, RetroShare and ZeroNet should also be mentioned