[tor-talk] Appearing American and VPNs writ large

[Eugen Leitl]

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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:51:09 -0400
From: Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American and VPNs writ large
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On 08/23/2013 12:41 PM, Nathan Suchy wrote:
> I'd beg to differ. There are very good VPN providers that keep absolutely
> no logs so you would have anonymity in that case. I think a commercial vpn
> without logs is the best way to go but you could also handpick nodes (tor
> needs to have a auto feature which can auto pick nodes by country. Covert
> Browser for IOS allows you to pick your exit node.
  You're assuming that there's endpoint anonymity and that no one could
correlate you connecting to Server A and a piece of traffic coming from
Server A at the same time.

  At a basic level, this type of correlation is responsible for Jeremy
Hammond's arrest (his VPN disconnected from IRC right as he lost
internet -- deniability is useless here).  And any iOS device is likely
keeping track of your recent server connections.

  If I had a week, I couldn't list all the cases where someone mislaid
their trust in a service provider to protect them.

  Deniability is dead.  What Tor provides is unlinkability.

best,
Griffin

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