Now Everyone Wants to Sell You a Magical Anonymity Router

Post by sitkack » Sat, Oct 25, 2014, 3:55 AM UTC

xnull2guest wrote: post #10

sitkack wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would assume that the NSA no longer has difficulty deanonymizing tor users, mostly from their own sloppiness. For a sufficiently paranoid net user, they will already have other mitigating factors in place. No phone, no cctv, laptop booted from solid state media, all EEPROMs on motherboard in read only mode, etc.

Oh I agree with that. Targetted versus en masse surveillance, though, as the cost of personnel and equipment would have to scale with the number of targets to deanonymize. Everyone's data gets sucked up as the default, but with Tor - I think they Snowden docs showed they could only get about 1/4 with automation. I do not remember the exact percentage. The combination of CALEA, Stored Communications Act, and Patriot A…