RonMarken

Hypothetically if the machines were not rendered inoperable - either physically or by a remote 'kill switch' how self-sufficient could an operator be without support of ASML or TSMC personnel?

Have further information on potential malice by Private Internet Access or employees?

While supporting funding more nodes is a noble goal another concern I consider overlooked is the potential 'centralisation' of nodes e.g how a large number of Tor nodes are hosted in Germany and near countries and the implications for network surveillance.

As a related topic the NY Times .onion site likes to refuse loading articles thinking a normal visitor with Tor Browser is a robot.

If anyone has any contact with the NYTimes ops' team perhaps this issue could be raised with them.

Might recall reading something to the effect of the C Tor daemon having run into bottlenecks due to lack of multi-threading of certain components and general concern over safety footguns.

Agree. While this is certainly a notable milestone it does seem a little premature to celebrate considering the caveats of the current version.

> Satoshi must be an expert in hiding.

There are allegations that Satoshi may have accidentally slipped up and leaked IP address that was not a Tor exit-node or other anonymous-proxy.

Could either be Satoshi fucking up and not using Tor all the time (has happened to other 'anonymous' entities) or perhaps they needed a clearnet connection for some reason and managed to use another internet connection not attached to any identifiers that would lead back to them despite that.

Some people claim this is the situation with the new Twitter onion-service. Sad.

Created and accessed over Tor or a clearnet connection?

How about the fact Twitter recently launched an official onion-service yet it is claimed by users when attempting to create an account with email over it the account is locked for 'abuse' within short order?

Anyone accept Monero?

Perhaps Twitter needs to make it easier to create accounts anonymously and stop virtue signaling (i.e suspend accounts created over Tor onion-service)

With pseudonymous usage of public services information minimisation to maintain operational-security against private user-data being disclosed by external hackers or rogue insiders is a mantra that needs to be followed religiously.

Conclusion. Some random person created a bunch of Tor exit nodes doing some internal routing fuckery for :80 traffic. Anyone should assume their plain-text traffic is fine-pickings when over Tor (and probably any of the VPN providers anyway)

(If you are more concerned about traffic correlation perhaps be more careful where you are entering the Tor network)