On: Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

[throwaway48476]

Governments will just get other governments to let them tap their fiber.

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Right, like China and Russia are going to let USA tap their fibre?

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Conveniently, tor nodes are blocked by the Chinese and Russian governments.

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Your post was 'Governments will just get other governments to let them tap their fiber.'

You have, conveniently, moved your point back to tor when I pointed out the folly of your statement.

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The discussion is about tor. If you look at the countries where tor nodes are hosted fiber tapping is a relevant attack vector.

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And I was pointing out that governments need to be on particularly friendly terms to achieve this, which doesnt make it a universal attack vector.

Here, have an example:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/104090...