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I haven't seen much discussion in defending against timing attacks, is it really that difficult? If we introduced long delays and artificial data sizes shouldn't it be possible? A constant stream not withstanding. Of course it makes things clumsier, but that's always the price.

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I'm not sure how effective that would be. They see you go in and they see you go out. If they can use the process of elimination, if nothing else, you can be unmasked. Those types of things would probably only make it more difficult, but not impossible.

If you're going to do illegal things, or want anonymity, remain on the network - domains ending with .onion. The regular web is inherently not anonymous.

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