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Comment by colordrops

8 hours ago

Isn't Tor a us government project that has been shown to be deanonymizable?

Sort of. There are a bunch of timing attacks bug in general it still works fairly well.

  • Also, a buch of conspiring entry-/exit-nodes will do the trick, if you have a budget for enough of them.

It has been successfully deanonymized, and resistance to NSA-level capabilities is explicitly not a stated goal.

  • Do you have a source for this?

    • No, because I don't keep a list of every article I've read over the past decade or so, but there were multiple busts where a regular law enforcement agency (FBI and their international counterparts) were able to prove the identity of a user simply by timing attacks.

      The fact that Tor does not intend to tackle the timing problem is plainly stated on the Tor website.