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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by rank0 on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:49AM (#28431714)
No it’s not bulletproof but there isn’t really any other network with the same availability which would protect against a targeted and sustained analysis.

Even if a nation state was targeting you, it would still take months for a timing/bandwidth attack to identify a user. Even then it would only provide your adversary a probability of certainty and requires consistent traffic from the victim through a compromised exit node.

No system is 100% perfect but tor will make most attacks prohibitively expensive.

Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by dredmorbius on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:28PM (#28437692)
Probabilities factored in with other data can be exceedingly useful.

Remember: all you need is 33 bits.