Mentioned it because there's been many papers which specifically used the live network to do such a thing already. Some researchers have spun up large numbers o

Mentioned it because there's been many papers which specifically used the live network to do such a thing already. Some researchers have spun up large numbers of relays in the past to conduct their work. I personally don't see how it's unethical for either academics or governments to do this? Both have an interest in breaking tor, even when in the governments case where they both utilise it and want to know who else is using it. The tor people themselves acknowledge the work in their blogs https://blog.torproject.org/research-problem-measuring-safety-tor-network/ https://blog.torproject.org/research-problem-measuring-safet... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314521450_Characterization_of_Tor_Traffic_using_Time_based_Features https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314521450_Character...