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Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it: > Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... t
by henryaj 13y ago
Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it:
> Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network?
> Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users?
At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.
- api 13y agoThis could be countered by setting up a lot of fast nodes. Stealthier malicious nodes that selectively drop or tar-pit traffic though would be harder to fight...
- axus 13y agoAt the end they debate whether killing Tor would be bad, since if they could exploit it they'd have all the "bad guys" in one place.
- milsorgen 13y agoIf anything this just encourages me to keep my non-exit relay up as much as possible.
- haakon 13y agoI'm pretty sure Tor does smart peer profiling/selection to optimize for throughput. Lots of people run Tor relays on their silly little home DSLs and Tor still works.
- eterm 13y agoWhich is why the slide also talks about reporting as if being a high throughput node. i.e. Report back that you're handling a lot of traffic quickly while handling traffic very badly. Does Tor have protection against a node doing that?
- plorg 13y agoI'm pretty sure Tor profiles against this as well. There's a presentation somewhere on YouTube addressing just this problem.
- aganders3 13y agoBut then the last slide has this: > Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.