And yet, confirmation attacks and traffic shaping by global adversaries are where the actual design flaws lie, inherent to any 'low-latency' (read: performance

And yet, confirmation attacks and traffic shaping by global adversaries are where the actual design flaws lie, inherent to any 'low-latency' (read: performance trumps privacy) anonymizing network, and you know that. Even efforts such as the Invisible Internet Project (I2P) which pile on tactic after tactic to improve upon this, but are too scared to delve in outright mixing traffic, are vulnerable to traffic confirmation attacks.