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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by astrodust on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:34PM (#17208544)
That wouldn't be as big an issue if all the nodes were very well connected, like positioned near big peering points, but they're not.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by seandougall on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:26PM (#17209850)
The "distributed all over the world" part would still be just as much of an issue; the speed of light puts a substantial lower bound on the total latency.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by astrodust on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:49PM (#17212354)
True, but pinging from one hub to another is way faster than someone's cable modem in Mumbai to someone's in Australia to someone's in Peru and back again. Those last miles add up in a huge way.
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