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> The inescapable fact about Tor is that its traffic patterns make you stand out prominently. I'm curious as to how it stands out. I can imagine a few things,
by insanitybit 4y ago
> The inescapable fact about Tor is that its traffic patterns make you stand out prominently.
I'm curious as to how it stands out. I can imagine a few things, like an ISP seeing traffic to known TOR intermediary nodes, or maybe analyzing packets to look for some sort of handshake?
> Just the fact you’re using it automatically makes you interesting and worthy of a closer look.
Sort of. But what would looking do? What does looking mean? The traffic is encrypted, they can look all they like. In the US they'll need more than "they connected to TOR" to get a warrant to search your device.
- NoThisIsMe 4y agoI don't know if this is true, but I've read that if you plug in the tracking number for a package at USPS.com through Tor, the package will be flagged for inspection.
- metadat 4y agoSource? Because this reeks of urban myth FUD.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoIt's known from leaks that showing an interest in Tor is enough to get you on an NSA list. But this list was so incredibly broad that anyone with an interest in technology was/is probably on it, diminishing its usefulness to actually discriminate anyone. https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-one-way-to-land-on-the-nsas-watch-list https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-one-way-to-land-on-...
- insanitybit 4y agoI mean how do they do it? In terms of the technology/ fingerprinting approach.