From: Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net>
In terms of real world threats, I think it's safe to say that TOR "Hidden Services" aren't very well hidden from motivated adversaries who can deploy global observation and/or global infiltration attacks: The persistence, fixed physical location and interactive availability a hidden services makes it a fat, dumb, happy sitting target for any major State's military and police intelligence service that takes an interest in identifying the host and its operators IRL. I have seen references to the idea of giving 'everyone' the option of having their router implement Tor. And I mention this because I'd like to see more about this idea. A modern router presumably has plenty of CPU power/memory capacity to do Tor. And, particularly since we are entering the era of gigabit fiber internet services (for reasonable prices; say $70 per month), there will be an ever-larger number of people who will be in the position to host a relay node. What's needed is to convince router manufacturers that they "must" transition to Tor-by-default routers. Wouldn't we like to see a million high-throughput nodes appear? Jim Bell