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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

Or the number of compromised exit nodes has increased 👀 😬

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Would it even matter? The network gets routed between multiple nodes and the site traffic itself is incrypted, so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

Plus, you can use both VPN and TOR.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

Yes, I was being hyperbolic, its probably unlikely enough nodes are compromised

The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

There was another one: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

But this was also technically a case of user error