[tor-talk] NSA, Tempora, PRISM And Company always know who is behind Tor?

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Fri Jul 19 21:04:11 UTC 2013


On 19/07/2013 9:23 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 19 July 2013 06:35, Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca> wrote:
>> On a related note, does having (what I assume is) a serious percentage of
>> the Tor relays in the Amazon cloud make it easier for the NSA to compromise
>> anonymity?
>
> I don't think a 'series percentage' of relays are in EC2.  I would
> politely ask you to research that and prove me wrong if you feel
> strongly about it.  There might be a serious percentage of bridges,
> but even that is questionable.  (Related: Runa is giving a talk at
> Defcon on the Diversity of the Tor Network, so hopefully that will be
> a canonical answer to these sorts of questions once her slides go up
> in a couple weeks.)

My mistake.  I had thought that a bridge was a relay with extra 
functionality.  I'll have to do some more reading.  And thanks for the 
tip on the slides.  I'll look for them after Defcon is done.

Ed


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