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> it's more likely that than the FBI running thousands of servers. Why not both? From my experience over the years doing datacenter/transit/fiber/etc. type of
by phil21 4y ago
> it's more likely that than the FBI running thousands of servers.
Why not both?
From my experience over the years doing datacenter/transit/fiber/etc. type of infrastructure - just assume a government agency of some sort either outright operates an exit node, or has a wiretap on it. You can be the most trustworthy person in the world operating in the name of freedom - outright working for a say a colo provider. Unless you are the CEO, legal team, or the individual engineer responsible for it - you will have no idea you are also operating an exit node under surveillance.
I'd put money on well over 50% of the world's exit nodes being packet captured 24x7.
- hinkley 4y agoIn WWII the Allies didn't want the Axis to know they had cracked Enigma. They used what today might be called Parallel Construction in order to make the intel look like bad luck and/or spies. They had to let some attacks happen because there was no way they could have known about them without decrypting communications. The FBI running hundreds of servers is fairly likely, and could give enough data to suggest that all of their information is just grunt detective work.