[tor-talk] Question about something said about Tor in the Der Spiegel data dump

[tor-admin at torland.me]

On Monday 29 December 2014 09:11:20 Cypher wrote:
> "The client must not be running a Tor router of their own..."
> 
> That made me thing of a few questions but I'm specifically wondering
> what they mean here.
> 
> 1. Do they mean that it is confusing to them if I am connecting to the
> Tor network from a computer that also runs a relay but I do not have my
> client configured to use my relay
My understanding is that they watch the traffic between tor client and guard and 
what is coming out of the exit node. If you are running a tor relay at home 
they cannot destinguish your tor client traffic from the relay traffic, so traffic 
correlation does not work for them.

Regards,

torland