But an observer who can see traffic between most Tor nodes doesn't need to run Tor relays to do attack scenario 2). I'm not sure how far that gets you, though. Maybe 2) in combination with just a few honeypot nodes would be most effective. And in any case, NSA can certainly rent an essentially-unlimited number of cloud server instances under a front company, no?
>And in any case, NSA can certainly rent an essentially-unlimited number of cloud server instances under a front company, no?
You might not even need to. Depending on how many ISPs have QUANTUM boxes installed you could just squat on unallocated IPs and route traffic back to Fort Meade, yea?
