In comic-book voice, then: what would an intelligence agency or police force's response to a suspect known to be using Tor be?
Traffic analysis, at a cost, could establish that the suspect is using Tor.
TorMetrics shows slightly more than 1,250 currently-running Tor exit nodes. I'll presume this is typical, history shows it's pretty consisten over the past 3 months.
I'm going to presume that a court could conceivably issue an order to log all Tor-based traffic. A state actor / APT might then be able to correlate a known IP and traffic at a given point in time with other data to identify a source IP. This might be combined with other measures to encourage circuit-jumping until the suspect is on a specific known or monitored Tor circuit.
Yes, costs increase. I don't see this as technically infeasible, however.
Might not be rolled out just for a house-squatter, however.
Yeah, what you outline means Tor is Swiss cheese (ha, ha, long game pun), when it comes to traffic analysis. Are all the IPs for Paris to Tor being logged at the ISP level? You bet!
Frankly, I don't think anyone is safe from the tip of a nation state, even small ones. But I do think we should protect everyone else and Tor would have done that.
Because this was clearly civil disobedience and that is what we really should be protecting.
Traffic analysis, at a cost, could establish that the suspect is using Tor.
TorMetrics shows slightly more than 1,250 currently-running Tor exit nodes. I'll presume this is typical, history shows it's pretty consisten over the past 3 months.
https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html?start=2021-06...
I'm going to presume that a court could conceivably issue an order to log all Tor-based traffic. A state actor / APT might then be able to correlate a known IP and traffic at a given point in time with other data to identify a source IP. This might be combined with other measures to encourage circuit-jumping until the suspect is on a specific known or monitored Tor circuit.
Yes, costs increase. I don't see this as technically infeasible, however.
Might not be rolled out just for a house-squatter, however.