Your internet link [LWN.net]

Your internet link

Posted Apr 8, 2008 23:13 UTC (Tue) by konrad (subscriber, #46679)
In reply to: Your internet link by martinfick
Parent article: Bruce Schneier reviews Access Denied

And there is nothing stopping your truth-fearing government from running tor to "capture" its
citizens either.

# tor
# iptables -A INPUT --src-cc <insert over protectionist society here> --state NEW -j LOG
--log-prefix "All shall love me and despair"

I'm sure there is far more efficient means of monitoring through tor, but you get the idea.

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Your internet link

Posted Apr 8, 2008 23:50 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

Except, of course, for the design of tor.  

Your iptables rules won't do much logging encrypted traffic to a unknown destination via
another tor node.

I assume from you comment that you are not actually familiar with tor's design.  But if I am
mistaken, and you have an attack that you believe is valid against tor, I hope that you would
join the tor mailing list and discuss it there.

Tor exit nodes and chilling effects

Posted May 22, 2008 13:12 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659) [Link]

See for example: http://lwn.net/Articles/249388/

It doesn't capture all tor traffic, but it does capture enough to be a deterrent for speech
which needs protection.  It just takes one or two public examples of whistle-blowers arrested
while sending what they thought were anonymous packets through a monitored exit node to have a
major chilling effect.