Tor Security Concerns
Discussions revolve around suspicions that the Tor network is compromised by state actors like the US government or NSA, given its origins at the Naval Research Lab and reports of deanonymization attacks. Debates include its effectiveness for anonymity, risks for nefarious use, and benefits of widespread adoption for cover traffic.
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Isn’t Tor at this point widely suspected to be compromised by state actors? Aren’t people who use Tor for nefarious purposes arrested regularly these days?
Last I read Tor is used for more nefarious things... and yet.
This isnt necessarily malicious. As the OP states TOR only works if a lot of people use it for regular browsing. The government wants it to work for the covert stuff so they need buy in from regulars and improving the service is how to do that.
My understanding is that, against certain actors, Tor is compromised. Am I mistaken?
do you not know why Tor was actually created?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
He is using Tor, which gets a lot of criticism for not being secure but actually defeats Syrian or Chinese governments. If the US can track a hidden service in Tor, they will probably not waste this trump by catching such a small fish.
How confident are we that Tor is compromised?
"Tor does not defend against a global passive adversary" -- TOR developers.
You are victim of fear, uncertainty and doubt.Tor's security is in its design (which is free and open). And thanks to that it does not matter what the original purpose was. Everyone can run a router and thus contribute to the network.You can find research on remaining issues in https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/research
Tor is borderline useless for privacy. It was literally built for the government [1]1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#History