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The fundamental flaw in TOR (and, by extension, all other anonymity clients) is that its traffic patterns make you stand out from everybody else. Just using it
by optimalsolver 6y ago
The fundamental flaw in TOR (and, by extension, all other anonymity clients) is that its traffic patterns make you stand out from everybody else.
Just using it makes you automatically interesting to state actors.
- dannyw 6y agoThis is not a theoretical assumption: leaked XKEYSCORE “selectors” target anyone (1) searching for Tor on search engines or (2) using Tor. Code: https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt
- t0astbread 6y agoTor relays are publicly known so you don't need traffic pattern analysis to know if someone is using Tor. Or were you referring to something else?
- mr__y 6y agoYou could be using a vpn or a proxy making it harder to be matched only based on IP address you connect to. Traffic pattern analysis would still work.