[tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

[coderman]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:14 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> 1) compute the cost of global traffic analysis.  we have big data mark
> to put a ball park on it, but the point is: the cost is non zero and
> non trivial.

specifically UPSTREAM model collection at backbone peering points.
consider both landing points and internet exchanges - you are alluding
to total traffic analysis here, not piecemeal efforts like prior
localized IX opportunistically applied to long-lived streams...

it would be interesting to compare the cost of small scale
opportunistic IX vs. total global analysis, though. (if you're feeling
ambitious!)