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What does compromising the exit do? I thought the layering means you would need to compromise the entire path to do anything.
by idontwantthis 5y ago
What does compromising the exit do? I thought the layering means you would need to compromise the entire path to do anything.
- foxfluff 5y agoExit node is where the tor-encrypted path ends and traffic goes to the clearnet.
- idontwantthis 5y agoWhat’s the point of any of it then to a paranoid user?
- Shish2k 5y agoThe reason to use the tor<->plaintext bridge is to route around censorship, eg the great firewall of china, or various western ISPs blackholing the pirate bay, and also to prevent the server from learning much about the client’s identity If you don’t want any MITM possibilities, that’s what the onion services are for (both client and server are speaking over tor connections)
- lazide 5y agoGot me - it looks like a decently effective honeypot though for ‘paranoid but hasn’t thought it all the way through’
- crtasm 5y agothe exit node has no knowledge of your IP address and your traffic should still be protected by HTTPS.
- ufmace 5y agoBecause it switches over to the clearnet there, the operator could do stuff like intercept non-https traffic or use a malicious DNS to attempt to MITM https traffic.