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No, not really -- that would be a much, much more serious problem for Tor. (As I understand it,) Tor relies on the assumption that relays are controlled by a di
by hdevalence 13y ago
No, not really -- that would be a much, much more serious problem for Tor. (As I understand it,) Tor relies on the assumption that relays are controlled by a diverse group of people. If one person suddenly adds 3 million Tor relays, then it doesn't help anonymity at all, since that one person can now monitor a significant portion of Tor traffic.
If I own every relay on your circuit, I can monitor your traffic; if I own three million relays, it's almost certain that a significant portion of the traffic will be running through circuits composed of relays I own.
- thex86 13y agoAnd you do not even need to control all the relays: assuming you control the first node and the last node in the circuit and as Tor is a low-latency network, it's trivial to perform timing analysis to find out what someone is doing on the network.