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by mike_hock 33 days ago
"Tor has been successfully deanonymized" = "There are documented cases of successful deanonymization attacks."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/tor_user_iden... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/law-enforceme...

If law enforcement can do it, then intelligence agencies and anyone with a similar budget can do it.

I did not say there is an easy exploit available that anyone can use or that attacks have a 100% success probability.

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First link:

"The FBI didn’t have to break Tor; they just used conventional police mechanisms to get Kim to confess."

Second link:

"From the limited information The Tor Project has, we believe that one user of the long-retired application Ricochet was fully de-anonymized through a guard discovery attack. This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack. This protection exists in Ricochet-Refresh, a maintained fork of the long-retired project Ricochet, since version 3.0.12 released in June of 2022."

Did you even read those links?