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This is where Tor shines: you never connect to the destination IP directly, so this kind of tracing is made much harder.
by franky47 5y ago
This is where Tor shines: you never connect to the destination IP directly, so this kind of tracing is made much harder.
- nighthawk454 5y agoYeah, I suppose proxying your requests through other servers is about the only way to obfuscate the traffic. Maybe bonus points if sub-queries from the same page are routed through a set of proxies instead of one, to further challenge fingerprinting.
- NmAmDa 5y agoI think a good commercial VPN would provide this functionality if you get used to change ip connection on a regular basis.
- bawolff 5y agoBut then your vpn knows who you are talking to
- NmAmDa 5y agoYes, that turns down to be the question of how to get a trustworthy VPN provider. Even if you run your own on a cloud then same question with VPS provider. There us no definite answer to that. Even TOR nodes are heavily under surveillance.
- bawolff 5y agoThe argument for tor is try and distribute the nodes between countries that hate each other: if russia is doing half the survelience and usa the other half, they'll be unlikely to coorporate just to catch you. Whether that's a reasonable thing to believe in is a good question. I trust that more than most sketchy VPN providers, but that's a low bar.
- pabs3 5y agoA global passive adversary can still do correlation attacks on traffic going into and out of the network unfortunately. Would be great if Tor had traffic splitting, chaff traffic and jitter.
- no_time 5y agoThat's why real time networking and perfect privacy are inherently incompatible. There was a proof of concept tor like network posted here that did away with the real time aspect and wasted quite a lot of bandwidth to conceal your true target connection but that seemed like a good solution. Unfortunately I can't remember it's name.