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> identifying themselves while using Tor could make their other traffic less than anonymous Why? With data encrypted end to end the only people who know you've
by driverdan 12y ago
> identifying themselves while using Tor could make their other traffic less than anonymous
Why? With data encrypted end to end the only people who know you've identified yourself are you and the end service.
- justcommenting 12y agosuppose you see an article in your news feed while using the hidden service and click on it; facebook still has a good chance of learning about your browsing habits that way, even if you start from a hidden service. facebook might then learn which exit your non-hidden-service traffic exits to, and from there, it might have information to offer to advertisers about the identities of tor users using a given exit around the same time. even just having a strong authenticator of your real identity active on tor at a given time may be concerning, depending on your threat model.
- neltnerb 12y agoWhere "advertisers" can be replaced by "NSA" for a more lucrative business model... :-/
- 0x0 12y agoAre they serving all of the CDN contents (photos) via .onion as well?