-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roger Dingledine wrote: > 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?
I think my PC connect with nodes works not as exit. I see the above through tcpdump etc. ooooops, sorry, I did mistake in the name of the topic, you are right. > > ...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/ > I think they mounted that nodes for examining the Tor for searching vulnerabilities and it is very intresting for me what is their results. They are a pseudo-global observer, that needs take into account. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkszMxAACgkQV59uvM2EEnfHjwCeKRbZ+oYgwF6ai6HnAq9mC/3U oIIAn1Pqb8sgJahjhXZxG9c48MBUDQLD =feUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
