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You 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’
by vineyardmike 3y ago
You 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.