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mirimir on April 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: VPN – Very Precarious Narrative

Yeah, that's another argument. The NSA competes with its counterparts to own Tor infrastructure. And that competition prevents any one from owning enough to pwn users.

And it's no accident. Tor was designed that way.

mindslight on April 9, 2019 [–]

Listen-only access is non-exclusive, and works for packet correlation attacks.

Security wise, we really need to be moving away from this instantaneous-datagram model.

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