My take on improving the Google translation: Because the Tor hidden services story is just making the rounds: Tor is dead. Tor is based on the assumption that

My take on improving the Google translation: Because the Tor hidden services story is just making the rounds: Tor is dead. Tor is based on the assumption that the opponent is not able to monitor the entire Internet. Then, so the assumption, one can confuse the opponent by passing traffic through a series of servers. To make the opponent unable to follow it, at least one of these servers must be located in a country where the internet is not totally surveilled. This assumption is, in my opinion, careless up to reckless. That was fairly obvious for a while. But as always: hope is the last to die. Now, in my opinion, the time has come to officially declare this hope dead. The only imaginable way to get anonymity on the internet is in non-real-time services. But as soon as there is a predictable temporal correlation between the different versions of the routed traffic, it is traceable to a total surveillance system such as the NSA. You would have to ensure that the forwarded traffic correlates neither in time nor in size. Or you would need continuous cover traffic, indistinguishable from the forwarded messages. This, of course, is idea of Tor, that all the other Tor users provide cover traffic for me. Using Tor one can deceive admins of web forums, stalkers and the police, but you cannot hide from the NSA this way. By the way: I just read the definition of totalitarianism. Can any expert please explain to me how to interpret the literature in such a way that the U.S. does not fall under this definition?