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A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays (therecord.media)
58 points by oedmarap on Dec 3, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Not surprising, given Tor's own design spec states it cannot defend against an adversary with global network surveillance capabilities. Tor is good for two things: obscuring traffic destinations from your ISP, and obscuring source IP from the destination. It's not good for hiding from all-seeing network administrators and certainly not nation state actors.




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