Re:Harvard Student Charged In Bomb Hoax
by Crito on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:46PM
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> "Had he not used Tor, he would never have sent an email: he wouldn't have felt secure."
That is unknowable, certainly not certain. Plenty of people called in bomb threats before Tor was invented. Hell, he may have just pulled the fire alarm instead.
> "It's Tor [traffic analysis] that led integrators to him in the first place."
Tor is not safe from traffic analysis; it is pretty trivial to figure out if someone is using Tor. This is a well known limitation of Tor that must be understood by anybody using it, particularly if they are living under a repressive government.
If you are using Tor with the expectation that nobody will be able to tell that you are using Tor, then you are trying to hammer bread into toast. That is simply not what the tool is for.
It is certainly possible that the Tor project needs to work harder at making sure people understand this.
That is unknowable, certainly not certain. Plenty of people called in bomb threats before Tor was invented. Hell, he may have just pulled the fire alarm instead.
> "It's Tor [traffic analysis] that led integrators to him in the first place."
Tor is not safe from traffic analysis; it is pretty trivial to figure out if someone is using Tor. This is a well known limitation of Tor that must be understood by anybody using it, particularly if they are living under a repressive government.
If you are using Tor with the expectation that nobody will be able to tell that you are using Tor, then you are trying to hammer bread into toast. That is simply not what the tool is for.
It is certainly possible that the Tor project needs to work harder at making sure people understand this.