So what you're basically saying is that you are more secure and anonymous if you run your Tor connection as a always on relay and access the Tor network via that relay?
On Saturday, January 26, 2013, adrelanos wrote: > I'll make a simple example to demonstrate the point. > > Alice lives in country with few Tor users. Let's take Uganda as random > example from the Tor metrics page. There are between ~40 and ~120 Tor > users per day from that country. [1] Alice likes to read a local forum > and she posts in her local dialect. > > Behavior A: > Alice always starts Tor every day around the time of xx:xx:xx and checks > a forum and posts. > > Behavior B: > 1.) Open a Tor connection. > 3.) Transfer some cover/dummy traffic. The longer the better? > 4.) After some time check doing the stuff. (Ex: check mail, go on > irc, post on forum) - Or at some random days, not doing any stuff, > supposed to be hidden. > 5.) Transfer more cover/dummy traffic. The longer the better? > 6.) Close Tor connection. > > Adversary skills: > - Forcing the country's ISP's to log when and for how long someone > connects to the Tor network. > - Surveillance of the local forum, watching the forum post time stamps. > - The adversary compares the time stamp with the the public viewable > time stamp of the forum post. > - The adversary can watch the amount of encrypted traffic between Alice > and the entry guard. > > Question: > Isn't it significantly more difficult for the adversary to find out who > is behind Alice's actions, when choosing Behavior B? It gets more > difficult than just comparing time stamps? > > [1] > > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2012-10-28&end=2013-01-26&country=ug&events=off#direct-users > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Andrew Paolucci www.paolucci.ca W: +1 (647) 692-0632 M: +1 (416) 276-2021 F: +1 (905) 508-6141 S: adpaolucci _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
