<BR><BR><B><I>Jon McLachlan <mcla0181@umn.edu></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">It is trivial for global passive adversaries, like the government or <BR>large telcom companies, to link true sources and true destinations of <BR>Tor traffic.<BR><BR>Tor aims to provide anonymity against weaker, local adversaries - and <BR>even then, adversaries can win, as investigated in these papers.<BR><BR>Read,<BR>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.pdf<BR>http://cypherspace.org/adam/pubs/traffic.pdf<BR>http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/ccs-latency-leak.pdf<BR>http://petworkshop.org/2007/papers/PET2007_preproc_Sampled_traffic.pdf<BR><BR>Or, for a lot of papers on anonymity,<BR>http://freehaven.net/anonbib/date.html<BR><BR><BR>I would bet it happens more often than we'd like to think, as practical <BR>low-cost anonymity is still an open problem.<BR><BR><BR>~Jon<BR><BR>Drake Wilson
wrote:<BR>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:37:55PM -0700, Rouslan Nabioullin wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Just curious, up to date has anyone been caught while using Tor?<BR>>> <BR>><BR>> That's a very vague question.<BR>><BR>> Suppose I'm using Tor to hide my current IP address, since I don't want<BR>> people to know that I'm actually posting something from a secret hideout<BR>> in Paraguay. I still post my full name and telephone number, so<BR>> everyone knows that I made the post, and they can find out where I usually<BR>> live by using reverse lookup on the number, but my rivals at Foocorp never<BR>> manage to associate me with the hideout. Have I been "caught"?<BR>><BR>> You can attach arbitrarily complicated semantics to the idea of<BR>> "identity" and what it means to have been "revealed" in this context,<BR>> so you'll need to be much clearer than that to get any reasonable answer<BR>> out. Even then, I doubt the data
are easy to get reliably, unless perhaps<BR>> there's been a case of someone being tracked down while using Tor that was<BR>> reported in major broadcast media. If the NSA were keeping tabs on Tor<BR>> users somehow, it'd be very hard to find out.<BR>><BR>> ---> Drake Wilson<BR>> <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 191, 96); font-weight: bold;"> Here are some very usefull links:</span><br></div><br><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://adsense-silvicone.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Passive income using Google AdSense</span></a><br><br><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://personal-developement-silvicone.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Personal developement</span></a><br><br><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blog-it-up-silvicone.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blogging</span></a><br><br><span
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