I can log onto a free blogging platform via Tor and no government in the world could deanonymize me.
How sure are you about this? I think maybe someone could deanonymize you, it would just take a lot of resources (pwning a bunch of exit nodes, and then correlating when your computer sends a thing with when the thing hits the exit node). Or they could analyze your writing and cross-reference that with other stuff you’ve written nymously.
From what I know about darkweb drug dealers, the US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself. But I’m not a specialist.
Writing analysis is a bigger threat, especially since the technology to deanonymize writing by cross-referencing it is advancing.
US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself.
The policy of the US government is to reconstruct a plausible narrative of how they caught the offender if they use exploits like this so that they can continue to use them in future.
If you look at the number of dark markets that have used Tor and been shutdown by the feds, I don’t think it’s implausible that Tor is already compromised.
How sure are you about this? I think maybe someone could deanonymize you, it would just take a lot of resources (pwning a bunch of exit nodes, and then correlating when your computer sends a thing with when the thing hits the exit node). Or they could analyze your writing and cross-reference that with other stuff you’ve written nymously.
see gwern for an interesting read on deanonymization techniques:
https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity
From what I know about darkweb drug dealers, the US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself. But I’m not a specialist.
Writing analysis is a bigger threat, especially since the technology to deanonymize writing by cross-referencing it is advancing.
The policy of the US government is to reconstruct a plausible narrative of how they caught the offender if they use exploits like this so that they can continue to use them in future.
If you look at the number of dark markets that have used Tor and been shutdown by the feds, I don’t think it’s implausible that Tor is already compromised.
More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2OZKitRwc&t=0s