[tor-talk] Should I warn against Tor?

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On Sa, Jul 06 2013, Mike Perry wrote:

> [...]
> As more people use Tor, the better this property gets. In fact, a
> Raccoon (when you run an anonymity network, you get all sorts of
> interesting characters) proved that the accuracy of dragnet correlation
> attacks falls proportional to 1/U^2, where U is the number of concurrent
> active users. This creature also pointed out the same property is
> visible in Murdoch's own graphs:
> http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Sep-2008/msg00016.html
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-March/023592.html

Thanks a lot!

> I think this property suggests that with better usability and some
> lightweight defenses, Tor can actually do quite well, especially for
> relatively small, short transmissions like website loads.

What lightweight defenses are you referring to?

Thanks
Jens