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> the most effective way to compromise someone's connection through The Onion Router is to control their entrance and exit nodes This seems like a big problem
by rlt 6y ago
> the most effective way to compromise someone's connection through The Onion Router is to control their entrance and exit nodes
This seems like a big problem since there’s not much incentive, other than altruism, for most people to run Tor nodes, especially exit nodes which will draw a lot of unwanted attention from law enforcement.
On the other hand, intelligence agencies have a large incentive to control a majority of Tor nodes.
It’s also pretty telling that Tor was partially developed and funded by the US government.
- im3w1l 6y ago> It’s also pretty telling that Tor was partially developed and funded by the US government. Times were different then. The US was fighting wars to topple dictators and spread democracy.
- noir_lord 6y agoNow they seem to want to topple democracy and spread dictators.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoWhat makes you say this? Because we elected someone you disagree with?
- noir_lord 6y agoBecause you elected someone constitutionally unfit to hold the office, a lying cheating philandering sociopath who cheated on his wife with a porn star after she gave birth, has literally dozens of serious sexual misconduct allegation etc. Yet none of the above matters, what matters is the entire GOP been willing to cover for all off the above and worse, throwing out centuries of political norms to “win” and by doing so enable the worst president in a century to do all off the things above and worse. This is a man who is a systemic risk to an already creaky system and I have a vested interest in the US doing well. His inaction has led to a massive death toll, he overtly politicised a pandemic then let his family control where supplies went for political reasons. The best thing the man could do for America is have a stroke.
- frank2 6y agoThe US military funded tor to give its employees a way to use the internet without divulging to the US's adversaries what sites they were reading.