This is exactly what I ask myself since one or two weeks. First it must be 
clear that a large amount of tor nodes is located in Germany. Next it must be 
clear that the biggest IP Exchange is in Frankfurt and that this will be 
snooped by BND and | or NSA. It is a fact that they work closely together and 
dont care about german laws. It must be also clear that there should be no 
technical problem gathering all traffic caused by the tor network. Its just 
some thousand nodes.

If you were a NSA member: would you NOT try a lot getting as much of these data 
as you ever can get? Wouldnt you try to make a deal with all your partner 
organizations getting all data they snoop so you can fit them together? Wouldnt 
you try to steal as much private onion keys as possible from tor servers in the 
net? We all have seen the cowardly behaviour of mustly any government in the 
world regarding the asylum requests of Snowden. If so, which government will 
refuse collecting tor data and handing them out to the NSA?

I think its time to assume in any tor related security discussion that they can 
and that they do.

I even ask myself why the tor network is existing at all. If the US wants to 
get rid of it they just would do. They just would say tho the governments of 
their cowardly "friends" that this is criminal and all these cowardly 
governments would shut them down immediately. Because this does not happpen I 
think two possiblilities are likely:

- They have already broken tor but dont confess, being happy to gather even all 
traffic from those who believe they would be anonymous in the net.

- They say: OK, we cant get that network under real control but its useful 
because we can benefit from that, so keep it up accepting that some are able to 
hide their activities.

Objections, comments?



Am Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013 schrieb Juan Garofalo:
> 
>       Got a couple of questions : 
> 
>       What are the american nazis and their accomplices in the 'first world' 
> 'free democracies' (like england and germany) actually doing? 
> 
>       Can they record all internet traffic? Is there an estimate of the 
> technical resources involved in doing so? 
> 
>       Can they meaningfully browse all the data? For instance, can they track 
> what, say, an internet home user in japan, or amerika, or russia does? Do the 
> NSA nazis need 'direct' access to ISP records that they don't have, or they 
> simply don't need any direct access to ISPs and can figure everything out by 
> sorting packets? 
> 
>       
> 
> 
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