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The danger is that the Government could just make all this up to specifically target nodes they do not control. The exit nodes have been known to be the weakes
by treebeard901 2y ago
The danger is that the Government could just make all this up to specifically target nodes they do not control.
The exit nodes have been known to be the weakest part of the tor design. It has been a logical theory for a while that all exit nodes are visible to the U.S. Govt.
This is just one way they can leave a system like Tor up for their uses and also make sure anything domestically is fully visible to them.
- impossiblefork 2y agoWhat about timing attacks though, things like governments controlling things coming and going into routers and the internet as a whole? Surely that's worse than the exit nodes? The way I see it, the right approach is some kind of continuous communication where messages end up in fixed slots, where if no message would have gone, there'd have been a randomly generated message.