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bronlundtoday at 3:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think you overestimates the protection Tor provides. We have seen multiple cases of people getting caught on there, and CIA probably owns half the exit nodes anyways.


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filuptoday at 4:25 PM

Maybe provide sources, or point out a specific claim on the Tor project website that you feel overestimates the capabilities or protections.

BGP attacks are largely defeated by onionservices.

And while governments have the ability to create exit nodes, so does anybody.

john_strinlaitoday at 4:49 PM

>We have seen multiple cases of people getting caught on there

as far as i am aware, no one has been caught due to something technical in relation to tor.

it's always something dumb like logging into an email that has the person's real name in it, using a credit card, leaving javascript on, or otherwise making some opsec failure.

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