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If a large enough group of tor servers resides on Amazon's network what is going to keep Amazon (or the government) from being able to reverse the anonymization
by tedivm 15y ago
If a large enough group of tor servers resides on Amazon's network what is going to keep Amazon (or the government) from being able to reverse the anonymization? Isn't this exactly why Tor asks people hosting multiple machines to label them as in the same "family" to prevent them from directly communicating?
- fl3tch 15y ago1. The US government can discover the user, but won't know what the user is doing, unless the user('s client) also chooses US exit nodes reliably / recurrently enough that a successful timing attack or somesuch can be mounted. 2. Presumably, the people who need bridges the most are in countries where Tor relays are censored (China, Iran, the Seychelles?, Cameroon?), and Amazon isn't in those jurisdictions, nor would the US government want to deanonymize them. But yeah, if you're in the United States and have something to hide from your government, don't use Amazon Tor bridges.
- dfc 15y agoThe Seychelles? I did not realize there is a big human rights problem in the seychelles. A quick scan of the wikipedia page seems to indicate that the seychelles government ranked second for human rights in african countries. What's going on in the seychelles?
- wyck 15y agohttp://www.seychellesweekly.com/May%209,%202011/top31_seychelles_democracy.html http://www.seychellesweekly.com/May%209,%202011/top31_seyche... More island politics then human rights, not to belittle the issues.