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Attack reveals 81 percent of Tor users but admins call for calm

Khaptain Silver badge

Re: Tracer Rounds and triangulation

Snipers often try to blend into their backgrounds. Would it therefore be an impovement to finds a means of "piggybacking" on someone elses packets... ie blending in to their network environment.

I have no idea if this is possible, nor any idea if it is even remotely feasible.

Theoretically : connecting via a FON connexion, spoofing an existing users MAC/IP address, creating some outgoing traffic, adding headers to the packet that would allow the returning packets to be filtered and returned to you. Idea being that it looks like someone else was TOR browsing.

[Edit : Just read further down the thread and it appears that the basic idea is already being covered, notably using TAILS as the client OS for even further anonymisation.]

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