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cloud fodder | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sensitive information like what?  Like this pubkey came from this VPN exit IP?
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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yep, virtually at the same time. Time correlations tend to be VERY accurate.
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cloud fodder | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ah, so for multi account correlation.. you are gonna want to use a different VPN for each account then..
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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yep, or a separate Tor session.
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cloud fodder | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So it's a non concern. There is nothing additional an app can do, anyone concerned should already be concerned with the relays they are connected to anyway.. IMHO.
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mleku | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 having a caching relay connected over Tor would help for untrusted clients, needs to have auth pass-through also

would also save bandwidth as well as increase privacy, with Tor or without, as it cuts out a lot of time correlation if you control the cache relay

this is why really all clients should have the capability to use at minimum a local cache relay for storage and optionally a remote one (for more privacy)
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ChipTuner | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Something ISPs and governments have been doing for over a decade now. Some would argue makes TOR useless in it's current state too, considering the number of exit nodes that are owned by governments.