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    // START_DEFINITION
    /*
    The fingerprint identifies sessions visiting the Tor Project website from
    non-fvey countries.
    */
    fingerprint('anonymizer/tor/torpoject_visit')=http_host('www.torproject.org')
    and not(xff_cc('US' OR 'GB' OR 'CA' OR 'AU' OR 'NZ'));
    // END_DEFINITION
I was surprised to see that they actually tried to exclude Five Eyes countries. The cynic in me wonders if there is "bug" that neuters the restriction.



Of course not; we're just all in bed together so hard that they get direct access from our respective agencies anyway.

Why spy through clandestine means when your buddies hand you their own info anyway?


What's interesting is that torproject is misspelled in anonymizer/tor/torpoject_visit. I suppose bugs are a universal constant.


Well, we have already learned that their idea of origin country is IP ranges, even if the data clearly indicates otherwise.

That said, they have a variable for directory servers in FVEY countries and one for non-FVEY countries. So I guess they collect everything and the distinction is only here because theres different legal boilerplate for the analysts to follow.


I'm wondering if "FVEY" meant something before it was rendered as "five eyes"?


The "Five Eyes" term has been in use since 2006. Strangely enough the original Wikipedia document archived on the Wayback Machine seems to be unavailable, however we do know it pointed to "USAUK_Community" whose relationship was extended to include other allies which is now known as the "Five Eyes".

Before 2007 the amount of searches for "FVEY" was near zero. The relationship between these five nations wasn't named publicly until 2006 or so, before that the relationship was there - just under another name.

However there are documents dated to 2001 available on mors.org which have FVEY references: http://www.mors.org/UserFiles/file/82nd-Symposium/Form%20712...

These are public so you can assume internal naming was used well before then.


FVEY is the accepted shorthand for AUSCANNZUKUS classification, and has been used since the 50's when UKUSA was expanded.


how about merely 50% confidence on whether or not an individual is considered "foreign?"




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