[tor-commits] r26862: {website} More than 3 hops can harm anonymity (FAQ). (website/trunk/docs/en)

[Matt Pagan]

Author: mttp
Date: 2014-07-12 01:16:53 +0000 (Sat, 12 Jul 2014)
New Revision: 26862

Modified:
   website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml
Log:
More than 3 hops can harm anonymity (FAQ).



Modified: website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml
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--- website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml	2014-07-11 13:00:56 UTC (rev 26861)
+++ website/trunk/docs/en/faq.wml	2014-07-12 01:16:53 UTC (rev 26862)
@@ -4339,11 +4339,11 @@
 <p>
  We don't want to encourage people to use paths longer than this -- it
  increases load on the network without (as far as we can tell) providing
- any more security. Remember that <a
- href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:threat-model">
+ any more security. In fact, using paths longer than 3 could harm anonymity 
+ ("Oh, there's that person who changed her path length again"). Remember that 
+<a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#subsec:threat-model">
  the best way to attack Tor is to attack the endpoints and ignore the middle
- of the path
-</a>.
+ of the path</a>.
 </p>
 <p>
  And we don't want to encourage people to use paths of length 1 either.