Is Tor still safe to use?

Post by Imustaskforhelp » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 4:36 AM UTC

amy-petrik-214 wrote: post #321

throwaway37821 wrote: post #178

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75% [0] of all Tor nodes are hosted within 14 Eyes [1] countries, so it would actually be quite trivial for the NSA to de-anonymize a Tor user. It baffles me that Tor Browser doesn't provide an easy way to blacklist relays in those countries. [0] Here, you can do the math yourself: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/all [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Fourteen_Eyes > Edit: For all the cynics…

TOR as it exists now is a honeypot simple as. Same as that documentary called "Benedict Cumberbniamnatch's Great Work" where they cracked the radio signals of the Frenchmen but they had to let the submarine sink so that they knew that the other guy doesn't know that they knew. NSA uses ROT which is TOR-inspired but takes the techniques and incognito aspects 7 or 8 steps ahead.

Post by beeflet » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 4:51 AM UTC

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #329

voldacar wrote: post #320

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I'm not an exit node. You can buy a vps with xmr if you're worried about privacy from law enforcement.

most vps don't support xmr though. any suggestions to whom I can trust (I basically only trust hetzner in vps space)

Post by marc_abonce » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

archsurface wrote: post #128

The more privacy the better as far as I'm concerned, but I've never used tor. What are people using tor for? General comms, piracy (mild illegal), other (very illegal), ...?

Post by Eduard » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:25 AM UTC

sigmoid10 wrote: post #64

alasdair_ wrote: post #35

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…

Post by bigbacaloa » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:28 AM UTC

sigmoid10 wrote: post #64

alasdair_ wrote: post #35

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…