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m00dy 5 hours ago

hey guys, anyone believes Tor still can provide anonymity to users ? just trying to ask politely.

dannyobrien 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

broadly yes, but the real question is: what's your threat model? https://ssd.eff.org/glossary/threat-model

m00dy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean definitely state level actor, for example, let's say you can access all data centers in EU as most tor nodes are located in EU.

ongy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Low stakes (IP violations etc.): absolutely

High stakes (military / nation state scale): no

jstanley 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This FUD comes up whenever Tor is mentioned on Hacker News. The answer is: let's say you think Tor isn't 100% flawless. What are you going to do? Not use Tor? It's better than any other option.

impossiblefork an hour ago | parent [-]

What you'd do is that you'd write a distributed remailer where fixed-size messages are sent on fixed timeslots, possibly with some noise in when it's transmitted, with a message always being sent on its timeslot, even if a dummy message must be sent.

I've been writing a system like this in Erlang, intended to be short enough that you can take a picture of the source code and then type it in by hand in a reasonable amount of time, as a sort of protest against Chat Control. I'm not sure I'm going to release it-- after all, they haven't passed it yet, and there are all sorts of problems that this thing could needlessly accelerate, but I've started fiddling with it more intensively recently.

zmgsabst an hour ago | parent [-]

Don’t things like Freenet do similar?

Except that every user is also a node, thereby mixing their personal traffic into a share of network traffic. Or so I understand it.

impossiblefork an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure. Freenet actually stores information, this is pure communication system. I don't think it uses dummy messages.

My target size is also <500 lines, and I think <200 is feasible, whereas Freenet is apparently 192,000 lines.

lurker_jMckQT99 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

hey, would you mind elaborating (with sources)?