On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:29:41PM +0200, Matej Kovacic wrote:
> what prevents government from running Tor (exit) points and sniffing
> exit (incoming) traffic on them?
Nothing. Nothing prevents me from doing that, either. Do you trust me?
If you don't have end-to-end encryption, it's not confidential. Period.
Here's a wonderful FAQ entry answering your question in much more
detail:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ExitEavesdroppers
I highly recommend the FAQ, by the way. Great reading. Very informative.
John
2006-08-14
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