[tor-talk] Spoiled Onions

[Philipp Winter]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:30:09AM -0500, William Conlow wrote:
> I have a basic question about the Spoiled Onions report. The bad onions
> mean that someone could block traffic, could re-direct traffic, or
> otherwise censor content, but they couldn't de-anonymize users nor could
> they prevent user from re-connecting to Tor network with different nodes.
>
> Do I understand the story? If so, am I correct?

Right.  They can most certainly not prevent users from re-connecting to Tor.
In general, they can also not de-anonymise anyone.  Note however, that they are
able to figure out your identity if you give it to them, i.e., by posting stuff
on the unencrypted Internet under your real name.

Cheers,
Philipp