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.

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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.

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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.