Astarte

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by Astarte 7y ago
>So you'd need lots of guards Can't edit my other reply. The operator in the OP runs 68 nodes. I did not look at each one, but it looks like most, if not all of them are guard nodes. This article mentions someone running at lea
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by Astarte 7y ago
>Some combination of obfuscation, encryption, mixing, and plausible deniability seems to be the best bet. Go on.
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by Astarte 7y ago
>But it's disingenuous to claim that even using a private guard (which isn't possible, as far as I know) I have been thinking about this for a while, too. There is some Tor fork which allows non-exit nodes to exit. It has been
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by Astarte 7y ago
I'm not sure about their security either, see my other post below.
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by Astarte 7y ago
A malicious guard is just a malicious node. It can also be used as some other hop, or there can be non malicious nodes without a guard flag. I think there has been at least one publication taking a closer look at what malicious middle nodes
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by Astarte 7y ago
>Wouldn't your onion service uptime become correlated with the guard's uptime? Yes. This is happening on a fairly regular basis. ddos against a tor node in most cases is just trying to figure out someones IP address or guard no
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by Astarte 7y ago
This has been mentioned on the tor irc several times and also on some other places. No one cared ...
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by Astarte 7y ago
>They wouldn't go through the trouble to identify and blacklist exit nodes and present users with a captcha otherwise. Do you really think they care about that 1% (made up number) of Tor users using their service legitimately? Or do
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by Astarte 7y ago
That's a good question indeed. I don't have an answer but some people got similar results when pointing out some issues internally. Only when publishing those on the mail list where everyone can read it things started to gain some
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by Astarte 7y ago
They could still figure out your guard and attack it directly.
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by Astarte 7y ago
>While Tor browser is very well hardened, relative to Firefox Some say it is one of the most attacked browser ... >However, we have no clue how many users in authoritarian regimes have been pwned by similar malware, over what we'
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by Astarte 7y ago
It depends on who runs these attacks. Some law enforcement agency could use those attacks to put you in jail. Mapping out Tor users can be interesting to other entities, too ... As you can see from the original article these attacks happen.
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by Astarte 7y ago
> but Tor users are much harder to discover, because Tor clients don't change guards frequently. I don't get that. Every guard can discover users because the users directly connect to guard nodes. As a guard you can just collec
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by Astarte 7y ago
> Unless you have hundreds of these There are single operators that run dozens of nodes. Just take a look at the article. Anyone can setup nodes and give no contact info or just change it to something else. I could spin up nodes as gze