[thrwaway1985882]

> That does not mean there aren't serious drawbacks that are more worth pointing out such as why bother with a very complex and noisy backdoor when you can just covertly create enough nodes to do traffic correlation.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

FVEY's annual budget is $1.7bn + $1bn + $122mm (NZ :3) + $4.6bn + $classified billion.

You think those guys can't mount a Sybil attack against https://metrics.torproject.org/ ?!

[akimbostrawman]

to be fair tor project is monitoring new nodes so it would need to be done slowly over time. still its the biggest threat to the network hence everybody should consider running no/low risk guard and middle nodes.