Comment by theonionrouter
Comment by theonionrouter a day ago
How does that work technically, if I am connecting with SSL?
The only thing I see is seeing which IP addresses are using Tor, when, and how much traffic exchanged, but mostly it will be a bunch of reused residential IPs? If you know who you are looking for anyway better to work with their ISP?
With the exit nodes, you know which IP addresses are being looked up. You might get an exit node IP when investigating a crime say. Raid that person, but can you find anything more?
This isn't an argument, but a question.
They don't use encrypted data. They look at the metadata like packet size and timing and perform traffic correlation, which defeats Tor's primary purpose: hiding the connection between the source and destination of traffic.