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If you know anything about research into Tor then you should be aware of the insecurities of Tor with regards to passive traffic analysis. Here's just one such
by jaekwon 13y ago
If you know anything about research into Tor then you should be aware of the insecurities of Tor with regards to passive traffic analysis.
Here's just one such paper.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.pdf
You don't need backdoors in the program to make Tor less anonymous. You work with traffic patterns & other information gleaned from the network. You can also congest the network & find out more information that way.
Tor is useful but you're kidding yourself if you think it protects you from the NSA. And please, shut up about conspiracy theories. Many of these theories have become verified fact, and the rest are up to bayesian judgement. You should brush up on your history starting circa WWII & learn to what extent the intelligence communities go to have an upper hand. Tor is low hanging fruit compared to breaking certain cryptographic primitives.
- papaf 13y agoI agree 100% with your post but I want to point out one thing for completeness. I believe nobody sensible involved in Tor would claim it provides strong anonymity. Anonymous networks are a trade-off between efficiency and anonymity. Because it is efficient enough to allow web browsing, Tor provides relatively weak anonymity.
- MichaelGG 13y agoWhat's stopping an individual Tor user from selecting 5 hops instead of 3? Or a random number of hops between 4 and 8? (Besides the sacrifice in performance, of course.) In the current environment, wouldn't even going to 4 hops prevent analysis, as current analysis tools are going to be set for the default implementation?