Can governments block tor?

[Moses]

I've also seen some exit node running at Tsinghua University, which
has class-A computer science lab of P.R.China government. Really
untrustworthy...

On 8/15/06, John Li <jli at deadbox.ath.cx> wrote:
> 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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