Re: Omnimix multihops an anonimity lie !
Nike <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.cypherpunks,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy |
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| Organization | Victor Usenet Postings |
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Anonymous once wrote: > > Lately I've started seeing omnimix users again boasting of having modified the tor.exe, the executable present in omnimix, with a patch that goes beyond the three hops recommended by torproject. > > This is the position of the torproject > > https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/circuit-length/ > > This is an article (in Italian) that I wrote about it. > https://virebent.art/blog/tor-extended-hops-risks.html > > This article is for informational purposes only. > Windows users can significantly improve their security by always sending Sphinx packets of the same size, mixed with Loopix Cover Traffic, over a Tor stream, rather than using OmniMix with more hops, which doesn’t help anyway, since ISPs with a gag order from the TLAs just have to say, “Hey, we’ve spotted another OmniMix user using the Tor network,” because that’s visible in Tor streams.