What if the majority of the relays or even a large fraction are not playing by those rules? Why not 4 or 5 hops? Will too much traffic will over burden the network and slow it down?
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Blake Hadley <moosehad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Rick Evans <tmovo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Tor was broken in beta long before it mainstream. What would you day if > I > > said there was a list of every tor user and relay and that list was > started > > when there were as few as 800 users??? Saw the list way back when. the > > government is willing to spend 7.55 billion to get into our shorts at the > > airport. > > What makes you think they wouldn't spend a couple million to make a bunch > > of tor relays that don't play by the rules and swamp the system with a > > bunch of Tor Spybot relays? Who needs vulnerabilities. > > > > > This is all well known. > The relay list isn't a secret at all, in fact you can view it here: > https://globe.torproject.org/ > > And sure, if you have a list of relays and you have a backdoor into the > ISPs, of course you can get a list of everyone who's ever connected to > them. > > That's why we take important steps to insurance privacy like using three > hops, and making identifying browser information look the same for every > user. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
