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Originally Posted by AdultKing
The Australian Federal Police have successfully identified people using Tor to access Silk Road and prosecutions leading to conviction have arisen from such identifications.
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Yes, and it was poor tradecraft or bad system security. All the crypto in the world won't save you if you run an OS riddled with 0days.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Do you really think that the various police agencies don't have access to dozens of law enforcement run nodes ?
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Of course they do. I also run a dozen high speed nodes myself.
As long as the entire list of nodes isn't the police/government/spies then you are ok.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Furthermore, you still have the transport layer. You still connect to the Tor network using the transport layer provided by your ISP. So it's an easy thing to determine if you are connecting to known Tor nodes or not. Once such a determination is made then a more substantive effort can be made to track what you are doing through other means.
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Also correct. However, there are transport plugins for Tor bridged that can make it look like Skype, regular https traffic, or even email transmission now.
Also, you can layer it inside of a VPN so all your ISP sees is VPN traffic etc.
If you are targeted by your ISP or government because they see a lot of Tor traffic leaving your home or office they will try to exploit you from remote.
If remote exploitation doesn't work they'll black bag your house and install a hardware bug such as a keylogger, slow drill listening system on the outside of your building, etc.
If you reach this level you are probably already fucked by other means anyway. But for the average joe Tor is probably the best option.