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Assuming that was true - wouldn't it be much easier to simply remove their exit nodes, making Tor intolerably slow, let the users leave for alternatives like VP
by michaelt 3y ago
Assuming that was true - wouldn't it be much easier to simply remove their exit nodes, making Tor intolerably slow, let the users leave for alternatives like VPNs, and then just buy up some VPN providers through shell companies?
After all, with a VPN you get to see source and destination IPs, username, e-mail, payment information, and maybe they even download your connection tool and run it as root.
- patmorgan23 3y agoOr just get a FISA warrant for the VPN provider
- vineyardmike 3y agoYou assume that the same part of the government that runs it wants to stop crime. If you control the exit nodes, you can snoop on the content, even if you don’t have the destination. The goal for governments isn’t catching crime, it’s spying on secrets. Same way WikiLeaks was supposedly started by snooping on Tor traffic.
- michaelt 3y agoThe traffic is almost all SSL-encrypted, so all you get to snoop on is the fact that someone unknown is connecting to https://www.example.com https://www.example.com Anyone browsing non-SSL sites through Tor is a fool, because malicious exit nodes are well known to exist, doing things like replacing bitcoin addresses in unencrypted web traffic. You don't need to be the NSA to benefit from doing that.