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Re:Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withd... by tlrobinson on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:42AM (#5912728)
I'm pretty sure an eavesdropper can simply watch for outgoing transactions which you never recieved and deduce that they originated from you. No fancy network analysis needed.
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Re:Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withd... by drcode on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:57AM (#5912824)
Exactly right. However, it means they would have to have direct access to 100% of the traffic from the user in question, while the original comment referred to having just a percentage of the backbone (user "sneak" has since edited the original comment to use different wording)
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Re:Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withd... by tlrobinson on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:00PM (#5912848)
True, but that depends if you want to go from Bitcoin addresses to IP address or vice versa.
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