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by Gathering6678 270 days ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this feels like a long-winded way of saying: if an adversary could control a significant portion of relays without being found out and for a not-insignificant period of time, it could defeat Tor.

Is it correct? Probably. Does it justify the "Not secure at all" indictment? No.

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The website actually states “not very secure at all”. This hacker news submission changed the title.
The calculator also misleads in another direction, in that it could underestimate the probability of failure by only considering the "takeover" scenario, while I think it is much more likely to be defeated via other OpSec failures.
The “conclusions” section of the site makes this same point.