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>everyone who claimed this could be solved by technology like Tor and onion routing has been proven wrong, Can you expand on this? Outside of theoretical attac
by ziddoap 4y ago
>everyone who claimed this could be solved by technology like Tor and onion routing has been proven wrong,
Can you expand on this? Outside of theoretical attacks only possible by the largest nation state actors and attacks that rely on something other than Tor (e.g. bad opsec, enabling JS, etc.), are you saying Tor has been broken? Is there a paper?
- lvass 4y agoNot sure what OP meant, but Tor is mostly broken right now for anything on clearnet, it's either practically or outright unusable.
- ziddoap 4y agoNot being practical is much different than what the OP seems to be claiming; that onion routing itself is broken in terms of security/privacy.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI'd read "Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex", by Yasha Levine, for a discussion of why Tor/Onion has relatively little value for private communications, unless it's used in a highly specific manner - and even then, one end of the communication is inevitably going to be known to metadata trackers at the very least. It's also highly probable that most or all Tor nodes on the Internet are backdoored by one intelligence agency or another at this point, meaning they can reconstruct the hops pretty easily. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34220713-surveillance-valley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34220713-surveillance-va...
- ziddoap 4y agoIt's unfortunate, I thought you would have proof, or at least a technical paper, since you said "proven wrong". I was excited to dive into something more technical than the typical hand-waves to 'probable' backdoors and intelligence agencies.