Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users

Karl gmkarl at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 09:13:42 PST 2021


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 7:07 PM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:46 PM, zeynepaydogan
> <zeynepaydogan at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> >Don’t use Tor. It does not provide anonymity. The Tor network transmits
> your information directly to the CIA. Someone I used to know worked there.
> He then found a high-status job on Google.LOL
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> As far as I understand, this is only true in that absolutely everything
transmits your information directly to the CIA, moreso if you're trying to
be anonymous.  I could be wrong.  My understanding is this list has tracked
the Tor project closer than most, also could be wrong.

5, 2021 20:03, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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> >Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users
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> Yes, a couple years ago i proposed building an alternative anonymizing network, using a set of perhaps 1000 (or more?) Raspberry Pi computers,. owned by (i hope) ordinary people.  Output nodes could be mildly encrypted, just to ensure that anyone could run an output node and its output would be un-suspicious.
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> Continuing cost would be about $50/month, per node.
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> My question?  Why hasn't this been done so far?  I would think that every dark market, and customer, would value such a thing.
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> Jim Bell
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