On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:30:36AM +0300, James Brown wrote: > Last weeks I see that my Tor client often connects with exit-nodes > having Vietnamese ip-addresses.
Often? Looking at http://trunk.torstatus.kgprog.com/index.php?SR=CountryCode&SO=Desc I see two relays in Vietnam. Only one -- hanhphuc -- is of much consequence. Neither of them are exit relays. So I would expect that you would never see a Vietnamese IP address as your exit relay. Perhaps you are confused about what country the IP addresses are associated with? ...Or perhaps I am? :) (Check out how many nodes on that site are allegedly affiliated with Namibia, to get a sense of how effective geoip db's are these days.) > I think that Vietnam is a backward country with very poor people. > Can that fact mean that this nodes works under control of Russian > security services? I think that's a pretty big leap. Why not first suspect that the several-dozen relays in Russia are operated by Russian intelligence? More generally, I think the odds are better that relays (both in Russia and in Vietnam if we were to get some) are run by good people, and telephone companies / country-wide networks are monitored by intelligence services. And then comes the question of where your destination website is and who's watching *it*. Things get complex quickly. > P.S. I heard that Putin's secret police mounted many tor-nodes for > unintelligible purposes. I'd be surprised. Why run a Tor relay of your own when you can just watch somebody else's? I guess it's hard to answer any theory that includes the phrase "unintelligible purposes". :) --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
