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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by inhumantsar on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:06PM (#41402002)
Tor is an interesting example. A number of attacks are made possible by monitoring Tor exit node traffic, especially at the scale nation states can bring to the table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#Exit_node_eave...

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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by chefandy on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:22PM (#41402165)
Sure-- but that structural shortcoming has been a thing for a long time-- I wouldn't consider it a secret vulnerability that Tor was facilitating for US intelligence, as was initially implicated. I'm not in the field, but it seems like it would be way more useful for law enforcement working against criminals naive enough to think tor would be a one-stop op-sec solution (e.g. ANOM) than for nation-state-level counterintelligence.
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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by Jerrrrrrry on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:23PM (#41460106) 

  I'm not in the field, but it seems like it would be way more useful for law enforcement working against criminals naive enough to think tor would be a one-stop op-sec solution (e.g. ANOM) than for nation-state-level counterintelligence.
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