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I am interested in the “legitimate” uses for tor. I have not kept up with this but I understand it was designed by US Navy to make it hard for oppressive regiemes to track their citizens use of web. What do we want Tor for except as a hope that Russian citizens might be able to get to the BBC site? I am asking honestly - and would prefer not to be told my own government is on the verge of a mass pogrum so we had bett…
I am interested in the “legitimate” uses for tor. I have not kept up with this but I understand it was designed by US Navy to make it hard for oppressive regiemes to track their citizens use of web. What do we want Tor for except as a hope that Russian citizens might be able to get to the BBC site? I am asking honestly - and would prefer not to be told my own government is on the verge of a mass pogrum so we had bett…
I am interested in the “legitimate” uses for tor. I have not kept up with this but I understand it was designed by US Navy to make it hard for oppressive regiemes to track their citizens use of web. What do we want Tor for except as a hope that Russian citizens might be able to get to the BBC site? I am asking honestly - and would prefer not to be told my own government is on the verge of a mass pogrum so we had bett…
If everything is SSL secured, then we don't have to explain why any specific thing is SSL secured. The same reason can be applied to use of TOR.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iran probably has enough money that it could pay a thousand different isps in a thousand different ways with a thousand different os versions and tor versions. This could all be automated pretty easily.
When you think about countries that have the resources to "pay a thousand different isps in a thousand different ways with a thousand different os versions and tor versions" your first thought was Iran?
The best attack against Tor is convincing people not to use it. If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono?
It could be for insidious reasons, or because the speaker legitimately believes it. "If anyone tries to convince you you shouldn't use Rot13 as an encryption scheme, ask yourself- cui bono?" Silly example, but the point is, just about *everything* could be explained equally by either evil lies or honest warnings.
Here is what I don't understand: Let's say I as a private individual fund 1000 tor nodes (guard and exit nodes included) and have them all log everything. This could cost less than $5000 for a month, with some time needed to get guard node status. I want to find a certain kind of person so I look for people that access a specific hidden service or clearnet url. Surely eventually I'm going to get a hit where all three…
>Surely eventually I'm going to get a hit where all three nodes in the circuit are my nodes that are logging everything? The word "eventually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Let's say you actually manage to add 1000 servers to the tor network somehow without getting detected. The network currently sits at just under 8000 nodes. For simplicity, lets also ignore that there are different types of nodes and geogra…
Yeah, the stated reason is always something else. But this just reminds me of "parallel construction" - what if they were found in on way and then (to hide the source) the claim was that they were found in another way?
Was it ever safe? Wasnt it created by the AirForce or something? I’ve always thought of it as a honeypot.
No, don't be silly, that's ridiculous! It was the Navy.
Here is what I don't understand: Let's say I as a private individual fund 1000 tor nodes (guard and exit nodes included) and have them all log everything. This could cost less than $5000 for a month, with some time needed to get guard node status. I want to find a certain kind of person so I look for people that access a specific hidden service or clearnet url. Surely eventually I'm going to get a hit where all three…
You only need to control the entry and exit node - since you know the next and previous hop for all traffic you touch, and default chains are 3 long. With circuits changing every 10 mins, within a few days you would have deanonymized at least some percentage of traffic for nearly every user. I'd call tor broken against any adversary with a little technical skill and willingness to spend $5000. I'm 80% sure Tor is des…
I had the impression, with onion services they are a thing of the past.
I am interested in the “legitimate” uses for tor. I have not kept up with this but I understand it was designed by US Navy to make it hard for oppressive regiemes to track their citizens use of web. What do we want Tor for except as a hope that Russian citizens might be able to get to the BBC site? I am asking honestly - and would prefer not to be told my own government is on the verge of a mass pogrum so we had bett…