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

Alexander Nasonov alnsn at yandex.ru
Mon Aug 7 20:23:11 UTC 2017


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

Tor enthusiasts: Hmm, advertised country doesn't match GeoIP, let's take
a closer look ...

> 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.

It's a good point but I can think of a scenario where a user
excludes a particular country or countries for legal reasons
or based on a geopolitical situation.

Alex


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