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shavanerad
2y ago
Most attacks on Tor are through social engineering. Think DPR. Error occurs between keyboard and chair. Tor can't protect you from terrible opsec.
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shavanerad
2y ago
There are thousands of relays run by altruistic volunteers. Unless your opsec sucks (i.e. you configure Tor to favor performance and not swap circuits every ten minutes) the opportunity to correlate by malicious nodes is small. Also, these
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shavanerad
2y ago
Tor was originally designed by a mathematician working for the US Naval Research Lab (NRL) to provide a way for MI agents to "phone home" safely from the field. It very quickly became clear that if only mil used it, it created an