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Between 2020–2025 law‑enforcement and research techniques to unmask Tor hidden services evolved along two parallel tracks: continued use and refinement of traffic‑analysis and relay‑control methods (i...
Traffic-correlation and timing-style deanonymization attacks against Tor are well-documented and can succeed under realistic conditions — particularly when an adversary can observe or control both end...
Law enforcement in 2025 uses a mix of network-level traffic analysis, running or controlling Tor relays, malware/forensic operations and open-source intelligence — each effective only under specific c...
No government transparency report or court filing in the provided sources explicitly names operational techniques for intercepting or circumventing Apple’s iCloud Private Relay; instead, the public re...
Defending against deanonymization on Tor requires both protocol-aware choices (use current Tor software, entry-guard discipline, and onion services where appropriate) and strict operational hygiene (a...
Operating-system DNS services like systemd-resolved, nscd and other system caches can cause DNS queries to bypass Tor’s SOCKS proxy and be sent to local or ISP resolvers, producing the classic “DNS le...