i feel a lot of pain when I read insults from punk, and I then struggle
   more to find ways I can contribute helpfully to the world, while
   feeling that pain
   On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 6:40 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <[1]punks@tfwno.gf>
   wrote:

     On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:15:11 +0100
     Stefan Claas <[2]spam.trap.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
     > if you are familiar how to edit a torrc, you can then define in
     their
     > trustworthy nodes
             that's a ridiculous comment because you do NOT know which
     nodes are 'trustworthy'
             And even if you did, the comment is still wholly misleading
     because the typical attack against tor is based on 'traffic
     analysis' based on packet/byte counts and timing. And those data are
     not 'encrypted'. So you can choose all the 'trustworthy' nodes you
     want, you are still fucked.

   relating around traffic analysis, just to restate that for a long time
   the recommended deterrent of this was to run local cover traffic over
   tor, so that one's bandwidth is constant.  this makes it much much
   harder to correlate the traffic (but places a burden on the network).
   I don't usually mention this because I understand there are further
   unaddressed concerns and it is a larger unsolved problem, that anyone
   can freely attempt engaging by trying to resolve the cover traffic
   issue on a wide scale.

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