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> especially if you're the only one using it That's not how Tor nodes work. Once you setup a guard node (and it got enough reputation) you will NOT be the only
by jerheinze 5y ago
> especially if you're the only one using it
That's not how Tor nodes work. Once you setup a guard node (and it got enough reputation) you will NOT be the only person using it.
- yardstick 5y ago> > just run your own guard node that you trust I guess this approach works fine for an individual, but if everyone has to run their own guard node to be safe, why would anyone connect to your guard node (given it would be risky from their perspective since they aren’t running it themselves). In other words, if you accept you can’t trust anyone else, why would anyone else trust your node too? (Edit: Sorry I’m wording it poorly but I hope you get the idea)
- jerheinze 5y agoThe overwhelming majority of people don't customize their path selection in Tor, so you will always get traffic to your new guard node.
- p_j_w 5y agoI think what GP was getting at is that your solution is not a global one. Not everyone can employ it.
- JasonFruit 5y agoMost people don't need to. Most people use Tor when it's a) completely unnecessary, b) not interesting to the sort of well-funded attacker that could run this many nodes, or c) only needed to avoid identifying them to the service they're requesting from.
- sildur 5y agoI use tor to update my machines, to generate noise, mostly.
- nelgaard 5y ago>I guess this approach works fine for an individual, but if everyone has to run their own guard node to be safe, why would anyone connect to your guard node By the time a few percent or tor users are running a guard node, KAX17 would be too diluted to be a real threat.