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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by whamlastxmas on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:27PM (#21264022)
I've seen what I remember to be credible information, possibly leaks via something like Wikileaks, saying that there was a tremendous number of US government owned Tor nodes. To the point that it was likely your traffic wasn't actually anonymous. I wish I could remember where I saw it.
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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by derefr on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:33PM (#21264079)
You can see at least the first half of any Tor circuit, though, and more-often-than-not I get mostly nodes with IPs from European countries. Are those US-Government-owned nodes, that just happen to be in Europe?
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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by the-pigeon on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:31PM (#21265750)
Physical location is not really relevant to who owns a node.

Most countries allow anyone to setup a company and operate servers. Any government organization with a small amount of resources can setup a front company and turn on a server.

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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by ColanR on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:09PM (#21264490)
That would be insanely easy for the US government to set up.
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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by LMYahooTFY on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:35PM (#21265785)
I also wish you could remember, as my memory is something along the lines of they ran a few nodes on on EC2 for like a few weeks.

I'll try to find a source when I'm off mobile.

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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by codesushi42 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:22PM (#21266095)
That doesn't matter unless they operated all nodes in the routing chain.
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Re:OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorab... by schoen on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:40PM (#21273080)
Operating the entry and exit on a circuit is almost as bad as operating the entry, middle, and exit.
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