Surreptitious Tor Messages?

[Roy M. Silvernail]

cyphrpunk wrote:

>On 10/3/05, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>Can anyone suggest a tool for checking to see if my Tor client is performing
>>any surreptitious signaling?
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>The Tor protocol is complicated and most of the data is encrypted.
>You're not going to be able to see what's happening there.
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<tinfoil_hat>
What about a trojan that phones home directly, then phones home when the
Tor tunnel is set up, giving its owner a correlation between your True
IP and Tor IP?  Useful, in a black-hatted way?
</tinfoil_hat>

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