From: Steve Kinney <[email protected]>
>In terms of real world threats, I think it's safe to say that TOR
>"Hidden Services" aren't very well hidden from motivated
>adversaries who can deploy global observation and/or global
>infiltration attacks: The persistence, fixed physical location and
>interactive availability a hidden services makes it a fat, dumb,
>happy sitting target for any major State's military and police
>intelligence service that takes an interest in identifying the
>host and its operators IRL.
I have seen references to the idea of giving 'everyone' the option of having
their router implement Tor. And I mention this because I'd like to see more
about this idea. A modern router presumably has plenty of CPU power/memory
capacity to do Tor. And, particularly since we are entering the era of gigabit
fiber internet services (for reasonable prices; say $70 per month), there will
be an ever-larger number of people who will be in the position to host a relay
node. What's needed is to convince router manufacturers that they "must"
transition to Tor-by-default routers. Wouldn't we like to see a million
high-throughput nodes appear? Jim Bell
