Tor Stinks re Traffic Analysis and Sybil (as do other networks)

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 02:25:31 PST 2019


I think the most common tech term is "depreciation". Tor should be o marked
on their boot page but that assumes there is a practical replacement.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 2:38 AM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>> snowden also said that
> >>> the NSA can't break tor.
> >> Such blanket context is unlikely.
> > was
>
> Also unfortunate that, today, one of the few places still
> propagating such blankets, in reverse via false advertising,
> downplaying, failing to mention, etc... is the Tor project itself,
> not least where is on its very own front page.
>
> Attacks on today's overlays may not be exactly cheap
> fast easy or wholesale, but they do exist and are in use.
>
> There is no project today that should not at least
> be putting a link to such warnings and docs...
> on the front page, download page, in the app, etc.
>
> And no reason that when designs and efforts thought to make
> existing attacks a significant factor harder... upon their startup
> 10, 15, 20 years ago at that time... whose fundamental
> underlying technology is now matured to point of diminishing
> returns on investment against continuously advancing attacks...
> should not be marked and understood as such by the entire
> overlay community, so that new fundamental treatise
> are naturally encouraged.
>
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