On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:53:21 +0200 Konstantinos Asimakis <inshame@gmail.com> wrote:
that someone peeks constantly into your circuits (well 1/3rd of them) for a long time, which is not really worse than peeking for a day into them.
Observing for a long period allows to build some profile on the user, observing for a short time is much more harmless. To continue quoting for you from tor-talk, "...to me it just seems to be an elaborate trade off that results in "if you are f***ed, ensure you are f***ed as completely as possible and with the most dire consequences possible". "An adversary has a chance to see some of my entry traffic for some time" ...seems rather harmless to me compared to the Guards system's of: "an adversary has a chance to see ALL of my entry traffic for a long period" -- With respect, Roman