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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by kuschku on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:40PM (#12294045)
Well, if you're trying to fight the NSA, Tor might not be good enough anymore.

Just like they sent a takedown to every site hosting content from the shadowbreakers, they might just send a SWAT team to every Tor node your data ran through, and try to track you.

And that's in addition to whatever TAO has in their reportoire.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by semi-extrinsic on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:15PM (#12294257)
Tor development sprang out of a US Navy project. The US government has probably been able to intercept Tor for a long time if it's important enough; they just have to have more than 40% of all nodes (IIRC) and they win. There's only ~10k relays + bridges in the entire network. 4000 computers is utter pocket change compared to the NSAs hardware budget.
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