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If a government entity had enough tor exit nodes and peers in place, might they catch some traffic end-to-end, and therefore be able to track usage of some peop
by midnitewarrior 13y ago
If a government entity had enough tor exit nodes and peers in place, might they catch some traffic end-to-end, and therefore be able to track usage of some people?
Any chance that is why usage has jumped?
- stevenrace 13y agoThe number of exit nodes and bridges hasn't changed nearly as drastically [1]. I'd wager it's a mix of publicity post NSA debacle and more botnets coming online. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html
- gizmo686 13y agoI can't speak to the cause of the jump, but a single entity controlling a large amount of the network is a known weakness in Tor. Essentially, Tor is designed to be a low-latency system. This means that if someone controls both the entry and exist node you use, they can correlate the timing of your packets and de-anonymize you. Having internal nodes problem helps, as would having ISP access.
- intslack 13y agoHere's an overview of the scenario you are talking about: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough Also, this news has nothing to do with a jump in relays. Perhaps it's due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBrowser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBrowser