Pagers and the next day handheld radios exploded on their users! This can be done.
I think the news about that particular counter example is too recent to be easily understood.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/remotely-expl...
Still, I think your point is excellent. The sort of group interested in tracking someone(s) over Tor certainly might have the capability to do so despite the difficulty.
Yeah, too recent to understand (though I've also been out of the loop a bit) - so thank you, that's...a good one.
> Let's say I as a private individual fund 1000 tor nodes
Was the operation against Hezbollah funded by a private individual? Otherwise I'm not sure the relevance of your statement to the comment that started this thread.
Re:Is Tor still safe to use?
by ranger_danger on Thursday September 19, 2024 @09:48AM
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Considering multiple world governments have already shown in leaked documents that this is exactly what they do, I personally wouldn't trust my secrets with tor.
But and God forbid you read TFA, those leaked techniques were all done before the latest mitigations that the Tor Project is writing the blog about.
Re:Is Tor still safe to use?
by ranger_danger on Thursday September 19, 2024 @09:56PM
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There's not much technique involved in running tons of nodes.
The attacker could try to create a handful of accounts on hundreds of platforms in as many countries as possible, assuming one verify that the platforms accepts tor and do not share underlying providers and data centers. The cost would then be the average price of said providers, which is going to be a fair bit more than the cheapest providers out there. Managing and spreading them out is also going to cost a lot of man hours. Also the secops need to be fairly on the point and need to be maintained quite strictly across all the providers.