Does anyone (living) have more details about this?
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If an entity controls a portion of entry and exit nodes they can correlate connections in and out through timing attacks. It's how they nabbed Ross Ulbricht.
Thank you 🙏
Mcafee seems to be saying here that no method is safe, even with TOR. How about without TOR at all? Like how about just VPNs? Is that not a reliable way to hide your IP?
VPNs can keep logs. They can also be compelled to monitor you legally. It works fine for most day to day things but if you need to be totally sure it's not always reliable.
It all depends on your threat model. If you just don't want your ISP knowing your habits a VPN should be fine. If you don't trust your government TOR may generally be fine. If you need to do something that is illegal in your country bouncing through multiple proxies in multiple jurisdictions is a common tactic. If you need to hide from a three letter like the NSA or CIA for an extended period of time.... you're fucked. They have the resources, manpower, expertise to eventually get you wherever you are. You'll mess up eventually and they'll get you.
Who said McAfee was dead? ;)
Fair point. He certainly didn’t kill himself and he does appear to still be posting on Nostr 😂