Timeline for Does an Entry Guard know by which clients it's being used as Entry Guard?
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| Sep 18, 2014 at 13:14 | comment | added | Tobias Sytsma | I agree that security through obscurity is not the way to go. Why we aren't using metrics? Because that would make the experiment way too easy. And in what way am I infringing privacy? Gathering IP addresses doesn't expose any services used by the client. | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 13:05 | comment | added | user78 | Becoming a user's entry point into an anonymity system for the express purpose of collecting Personal Identifying Information about said user if not malicious is at the very least "not very nice", especially when there is bulk metrics collected in a user-privacy aware manner. | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 11:54 | comment | added | Jobiwan | I disagree that this is malicious. There is even a torrc option for it. Tor clients should assume they're known as such. Your reply suggests that you have the answer but don't want to give it. (Restricting information and counting on strangers to scrub their logs both make for a bad security model.) | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 10:51 | history | answered | user78 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |