Tor Stinks re Traffic Analysis and Sybil (as do other networks)
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Sat Dec 14 15:18:42 PST 2019
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 11:57:32AM -0000, Spirit of Nikopol wrote:
> On Sat, December 14, 2019 2:36 am, grarpamp wrote:
> >>>> snowden also said that the NSA can't break tor.
> >>> Such blanket context is unlikely.
>
> [.....]
>
> > Also unfortunate that, today, one of the few places still
> > propagating such blankets, in reverse via false advertising, downplaying,
> > failing to mention, etc... is the Tor project itself, not least where is
> > on its very own front page.
>
>
> Snowden smells like a CIA limited hangout operation. Quid pro quo between
> CIA and FSB/GRU ... it works like this:
The most generous proposition is that he is an unwitting fool.
There are many less generous conclusions...
Given the consequences upon hiself, I suspect some combination.
His level of naievity (and the consequent almost total irrelevance of
his "information" release) is just so depressing.
> Obama the MI56 cutout, promote animus toward defecting poster-child. You
> host him as pin-up whistleblower hero, Vladimir, because in your country
> everyone knows not to ask too many questions.
>
> Then when moles and snitches in USA and Russia contact Snowden's "trusted
> resources" to spill beans, we quickly identify and silence them.
Guardian: "We promise we literally smashed all the laptop HDDs with a
sledgehammer."
And they said that with a straight face.
Stunning stuff.
> Obama was a clear intelligence asset from early on. The intel community
> knows no national boundaries. They are ever a renegade state within the
> states with no national loyalties. Any pretense to national loyalty or
> patriotism is kabuki theatre for the peons and soldiers.
>
> Snowden also looks like one of the Greenberg brothers.
>
> Nikopol
So much heresy!
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