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There are Obfsproxy bridges that make Tor traffic look like normal internet traffic. https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/ https://tb-manual.torprojec
by abdullahkhalids 5y ago
There are Obfsproxy bridges that make Tor traffic look like normal internet traffic. https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/ https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/
- noident 5y agoA more correct way to describe obfs4 is "makes Tor traffic look like unidentifiable traffic", which is in itself potentially a suspicious marker for people who want to watch Tor users. If Tor makes up the bulk of identifiable traffic, the value add of being unidentifiable is not very high. This is an active area of research for the Tor project. Pluggable transports are not perfect and can be profiled by a determined adversary, although it takes more resources and sophistication than identifying unbridged Tor traffic.
- user3939382 5y agoAnother problem is that popular OS’s (macOS/Windows) and popular software vendors (Google, Adobe, Microsoft) install tons of built in daemons/services that are constantly phoning home in the background with telemetry. I imagine it would be trivial to deanonymize Tor (or VPN) traffic by analyzing these payloads.