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by mike-cardwell 4444 days ago
https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html#index...

"Tor doesn't protect you from a global adversary

A global passive adversary would be a person or an entity able to monitor at the same time the traffic between all the computers in a network. By studying, for example, the timing and volume patterns of the different communications across the network, it would be statistically possible to identify Tor circuits and thus matching Tor users and destination servers.

It is part of Tor's initial trade-off not to address such a threat in order to create a low-latency communication service usable for web browsing, Internet chat or SSH connections.

For more expert information see Tor Project: The Second-Generation Onion Router, part 3. Design goals and assumptions. [https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...