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me_irl (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

Or the number of compromised exit nodes has increased 👀 😬

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Would it even matter? The network gets routed between multiple nodes and the site traffic itself is encrypted, so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

    The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

    Plus, you can use both VPN and TOR.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

    Yes, I was being hyperbolic, its probably unlikely enough nodes are compromised

    The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

    There was another one: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

    But this was also technically a case of user error

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