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by alt227 788 days ago
I assume that TOR is vulnerable to the 51% attack? If so I would imagine that state actors have the ability to spin up a million containers each hosting a node and easily take control (or at least be able to start tracing connection from entry to exit node).

However Im sure this would be immediately obvious (unless they have been slowly doing this since the begining of TOR)
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bombcar 788 days ago
IIRC there is at least one known case where a moderately major criminal was let go rather than the government disclosing how they got the evidence on him. The assumption has been that they had a way of compromising TOR that they didn't want to reveal.
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generalizations 788 days ago
One implication of that - make sure there's no available means of parallel construction, and it's ok if they catch you in some way they don't want to reveal. As long as you're not valuable enough, that is.
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bombcar 788 days ago
That's the real bar for any security, really - make it so it's not worth the while of people who could defeat it.

Because eventually, no matter what you do, if you're up against a nation state, they'll just make you dead.

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