On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 02:27, Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a full-time PET researcher, but smarter people than myself in this > thread seem to think the GPA is > more of a myth than a reality.
Using https://metrics.torproject.org/csv/relaycountries.csv: $ grep 2012-03-05 relaycountries.csv | cut -d, -f2-3 | tr , ' ' | sort -rn -k 2 | grep -v ' [0-9]$' | pr -t4 us 778 it 42 dk 24 ro 15 de 507 at 40 no 21 il 15 fr 170 cz 38 lt 21 ar 12 ru 169 pl 33 sc 20 br 11 nl 166 fi 33 lu 20 sk 10 zz 138 ch 33 es 17 nz 10 se 111 au 29 hu 16 gr 10 gb 107 ua 28 be 16 bg 10 ca 80 jp 24 >From a cursory glance, all countries on the list (assuming that "zz" is satellite or unclassified, and with the exception of Russia) are NATO countries or similar, sharing electronic intelligence with the USA. Russia is a potential war adversary, so its communications interception is high-priority for the USA as well. In summary, the traffic channels of absolute majority of Tor relays (Internet backbones and satellite links) are easily accessible by the US intelligence agencies. Intercepting and correlating all Tor traffic is thus a question of willpower and resources prioritization, not viability. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
