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ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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It's true that a large adversary with a little money (like the US or Israeli government) could host a huge amount of compromised exit nodes and relays (I don't think compromising exit nodes alone is enough) and de-anonymize users.
It is also true that you can run a relay right now by running the Snowflake proxy in a normal browser tab: https://snowflake.torproject.org/
It is safe to run a relay on your home connection, because you aren't hosting any exit traffic. I've never had trouble when I've done it.
Tor also hosts "hidden services" or "onion services", which don't exit the Tor network. The client and the server agree on a rendezvous node and meet each other there, and the traffic is encrypted from end-to-end. I am pretty secure this is more resistant to the "global passive adversary" type of attack, but nothing is perfect. A GPA can always look at timing and make some correlations based off of it.
It is true that the network is more secure if more people use it, because that provides cover. It is true that if you pirate stuff through I2P you won't get a letter from your ISP.
Better practice now before you really need it.