On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 06:30, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

Setting aside the taps, what if half the 3000 nodes are 'The Man'?

I think that's quite unlikely. The nodes must reside in commercial data centers and run untrusted software (including necessarily modified Tor clients), all of which exposes them to hacking risks and to the resulting possibility of discovering the interception framework employed (which is probably not unique to Tor, so that's a huge risk). But one could try correlating Tor relays and Tor clients growth graphs since, say, 2000 b if at some point there was a sharp growth in USA-located relays without a corresponding growth in total clients, and if those relays have similar bandwidth / data center quality capabilities, then that could be "The Man". -- Maxim Kammerer LibertC) Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE