[tor-relays] Go home GeoIP, you're drunk.

Andreas Krey a.krey at gmx.de
Mon Aug 7 09:06:56 UTC 2017


On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 08:41:31 +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
...
> It sounds like a country should be set by an operator in torrc rather
> than relying on GeoIP.

NSA: There are people excluding US exits? Just let's set some
of ours to india. (Where that is probably not their modus

...
> Does ExcludeExitNodes option change a number of packets/packet sizes sent
> or received by a client or do you mean a distributed fingerprint collected
> over a number of nodes?

When twitter notices one of their users always comes via tor,
but never from US exits, and $otherservice does the same, they
can collude and suspect that these two users are, in fact,
the same person.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800


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