I've no idea about the capacity, but I will say that, in a general sense, this is a relatively insecure method of using Tor. Recent events have highlighted this, naturally, but Tor works best as network infrastructure where "split tunnelling" (to borrow a term from VPN architecture) is not allowed. Perhaps if it were fully sandboxed such that all communications had to go through a proxy, a la Whonix.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Lazlo <[email protected]> wrote: > Firefox is flirting with idea the to adopt Tor as a feature [1,2]. This > could easily multiply [3] the number of daily users on the Tor network [4]. > These daily users are not likely to add new capacity to the network. Is the > Tor network able to handle a sudden peak in usage (there is some > overcapacity [5]) without a hassle or is there action required? > > [1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/364265592112414720 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614 > [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table > [4] https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html > [5] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth > -- > Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too > many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- @kylemaxwell -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
