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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: blzbob on October 22, 2012, 08:51 am
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My housemate today told me that even though TOR was highly encrypted, the first and the last node (entry and exit points) were still completely transparent.
does this mean that if i am in communication with a potential customer who is an uncover LEA, could they theoretically back track through TOR and find my physical location?
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Quoting from:
[CLEARNET] https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
(I suggest you to read the entire page, it'll take about 2 mins)
Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several relays that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going.
Because each relay sees no more than one hop in the circuit, neither an eavesdropper nor a compromised relay can use traffic analysis to link the connection's source and destination.
So: no, it's not possible.
Also, if it was, don't you think that all the vendors would have already been busted? :P