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Is Tor broken? I've heard that its anonymity was proven to be broken, but I'm not sure how reliable my source was. I'm interested in getting involved but hesitant to do so until I have some solid info one way or the other.



There's something like 2k-8k exit nodes, and all that is needed to compromise it is 51% of those. Given that the CIA started tor and the government has significant interest in breaking it, I would find it harder to believe that they didn't have a few thousand computers lying around.

Also all of this is from memory, but I hope none of it is wrong. Feel free to correct me if so.




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