>   Re: Re: Rise of the Dark Nets   
    >   By: Khelair to S/370 on Sat Aug 24 2013 03:24:28   
    >    
    > That's the thing. Considering that the US Navy originally developed tor, I   
    > wouldn't be surprised if a good number of the exit nodes are run by the US   
    > government. But personallly I haven't heard any stories of people being   
    > busted on tor (yet), so maybe its safer than it looks. Nevertheless,   
    > someone mentioned I2P so I'll try reading more about that.   
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   It's all a function of your allowable attack profile.   
      
   Yes, TOR exit nodes act as a man in the middle, and can potentially intercept   
   your traffic.  So, in order to use TOR efficiently, you should also cloud your   
   identity.   
      
   FWIW, I2P "outproxies" do the same thing.  However, I2P is made to function as   
   a network on top of the public internet, with all internal traffic   
   untrackable, and encrypted.   
      
   Freenet completely hides the source, however, the requester might be   
   vulnerable, as all chunks will be located in their local cache.   
      
   The I2P group has a great page discussing their threat model:   
   http://www.i2p2.de/how_threatmodel.html   
   I2P compared/contrasted with other networks:   
   http://www.i2p2.de/how_networkcomparisons   
   And, an entire distro designed to obscure all of your traffic:   
   https://tails.boum.org/   
      
   I do like I2P quite a bit, as it allows for private hosting of all kinds of   
   services.  You can even host a Synchronet BBS on it :)   
      
   I personally have used TAILS, and have analyzed it a bit.  It does appear to   
   be on the up and up, and have not found a trojan or backdoor on it.  But,   
   don't trust, verify :)   
      
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