Isn't the logic behind that is that TOR's original purpose was for secure, untraceable connections between military/intelligence personnel? If the traffic only composed of people working under the US government and their loved ones, it would be rather trivial to isolate the traffic and make a logical guess of who's talking to who. Opening it to the public was not something done as a honeypot for people to encounter, it is a requirement for the system to function as anonymous communication for all users.
As for why nodes are mostly hosted in 5 or 14 eye nations, consider where the funding for nodes is (and what would happen if you hosted one in a nation actively trying to strangle TOR traffic).
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umbrella@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 14h
i mean ever notice how nodes are almost always located in five eyes countries?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 7h
Isn't the logic behind that is that TOR's original purpose was for secure, untraceable connections between military/intelligence personnel? If the traffic only composed of people working under the US government and their loved ones, it would be rather trivial to isolate the traffic and make a logical guess of who's talking to who. Opening it to the public was not something done as a honeypot for people to encounter, it is a requirement for the system to function as anonymous communication for all users.
As for why nodes are mostly hosted in 5 or 14 eye nations, consider where the funding for nodes is (and what would happen if you hosted one in a nation actively trying to strangle TOR traffic).
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 2 pts · 13h
WereinHell makes video about Tor.
Not I2P, other onion networks, yggdrasil, RFC 2549, etc..
gandalfthewhite@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 13h
Tor is a military project so it's like saying water is wet. There are lots of other options.