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"