• Anivia@feddit.org
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    Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

    Or the number of compromised exit nodes has increased 👀 😬

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      Would it even matter? The network gets routed between multiple nodes and the site traffic itself is encrypted, so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

      The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

      Plus, you can use both VPN and TOR.

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        so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

        Yes, I was being hyperbolic, its probably unlikely enough nodes are compromised

        The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

        There was another one: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

        But this was also technically a case of user error