On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Juan Garofalo <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
... What is currently true? Even tor developers admit that traffic analysis is feasible.
of course. it's also expensive, relative to other options. i'm saying NSA spends money carefully.
Are you telling me you know all the nsa does? You know they are not big enough to attack tor as 'global adversary' or whatever the jargon was?
never said either thing. i'm also long on the record advocating for the next generation of low latency anonymous networking that _does_ provide strong defense against traffic analysis. turns out the details are, um.. complicated ;)
Your reasoning is flawed. Yes, there may use cheaper means if that's all they needed. But that does not imply, at all, that other more sophisticated means are not available to them.
i'm glad that is not, in fact, my reasoning. of course there are more sophisticated means available to them; that will always be the case. they've got BILLIONS and BILLIONS every year, for their projects. the point is not making something "NSA proof", which is an ill defined and open ended venture. the point is increasing the cost of their efforts and narrowing their scope. the more money they spend getting less and less in return, the better!