On 1/7/2014 11:09 AM, Mark McCarron wrote: > We're not discussing censorship, but the removal of potential exploitable > data. Its not a keyword system, it removes cookies, web bugs, adds jitter to > timings, etc. It can be disabled with a click. > > Regards, > > Mark McCarron >
Tor exit nodes have to be completely blind for legal reasons. The moment they start inspecting or filtering out *any* type of content, some government can pressure the Tor Project to filter out other content. I don't remember the specific legal terms, but inspecting or filtering the data changes your status from being a simple network relay to being a sort of content provider, and you can be held legally responsible for any content that flows through your node at that point. Jitter/timing could be done, since that would not require any inspection or filtering. However, IIRC, the amount of additional latency required to make timing attacks non-trivial is far more than would be acceptable to the typical user. Someone who has studied this could give more insight. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
