Can governments block tor?

Nick Mathewson nickm at freehaven.net
Sat Aug 12 21:20:31 UTC 2006


On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:15:39PM -0500, Arrakistor wrote:
> 
> I  am  sure  this  has  been  answered  before,  but my email logs are
> destroyed.
> 
> Can  a  government  find  out  what  IP  addresses that tor originally
> connects to in order to get directory information?

Currently, yes, if the government employs anybody who knows how to
download Tor and read C.   I would imagine that most governments do.

We're working on this.

rtfm'ly yrs,
-- 
Nick Mathewson
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