F. Fox wrote:
Part of what makes Tor anonymous is a that it has a large # of relays that may or may not be supporting any particular anonymous stream. When one indefinitely restricts, for instance, the exit relays (or entry relays) that one uses to construct anonymous tunnels, then this does hurt one's anonymity simply because the "cloud" of used relays of what it could have been, is reduced to less than what it could have been. This is of course assuming that the trust of any particular relay is uniformly distributed over all relays... so, of course if there's a totalitarian censorship somewhere, then yeah, don't trust those relays... otherwise... might not be in the best interest of anonymity...-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Florian Reitmeir wrote: (snip)FAQ: https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ "4.10. Can I control what nodes I use for entry/exit?" ... We don't actually recommend you use these for normal use -- you get the best security that Tor can provide when you leave the route selection to Tor ...(snip) I seriously question this - at least in the context of evading totalitarian censorship technology.
I think in such a situation, one would want to exclude nodes from their own country; at the very least, they'd want to exclude such exit nodes. - -- F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+ Owner of Tor node "kitsune" http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBR6DQI+j8TXmm2ggwAQhgMQ//RMXRtbdXQ4Ekh6XdojQtnKQfUVuW+mwD IjPJAlGG53e+PrIa3RWChQ2GXWWnQMJHhyaSypTdNSwjAwEpSvo3ABsvsQWLpWoN gqrYklkjgc4d5D5o/z35EOIhrwBIoOi7Niq8oSUOylviYRwD6kKXDlFxOmPKiY5F M6+BSNFRoRlaYS8JulcHJ26x7RgCkbOJllNKB6Zk3Kun024/hoS/k1J9t5T/rqVx B4nN1ZGthHXBJMryQImSlMMUgdYo9yirnZUbIWWjcgqpuRtk6NIWwJQf4X1X6fqg hXoVd6iEG/+dzkO4pKawnc00wc+dUVlTO9UijAHWars7NRiGch9ZG+409Yr/Yf3q T/U/aqUE2L6lnTK8JeiZ8i9xdN/g5GluGRlxKPCBQ4YcZU+i5fYP9D8T7gx/ZAEo 3zr264IzOoGnMPPLrgSlSJiR7cX6MpLkylTWqlezkqxZgc2UlblD6Yh0LdFDYx0w EjKCrArhsYM4Zr9Gl98wCUiE1nD/V4Js/0pM3ZoBq4U15eJfp+tRRRXEVi3yS1TR arZLu+Hc9+JS7YQzN2W1N82nUc/oOdp70Z5ntFcxQX4Gy6bZuI77ZE7sMF7AlTiw 6Ua5q6Pmo/6EmM5ObMKVOoN/zBtgNG8JfwFwFRerkneog5b3n3JAdMzp7Bqjr+Tx V6xSEm5O7Hk= =FVfB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----