Tor 0day: Snowflake
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Tor never claimed that it can hide if somebody is using tor. It only claims that it can hide what you're using tor for.
This "specific scenario" is very explicitly out of scope so claiming "0-days" seems extremely dishonest marketing.
What am I missing?
Not true. Pluggable transports are explicitly intended to prevent someone from seeing that you are connecting to Tor. This is because someone seeing you connect to Tor means that they can block your access to Tor, or monitor when you are using Tor.
See: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-bridges-and-pluggable-... The Tor Project wrote: "But what do you do when Tor itself is blocked? When it happens, you can use bridges and pluggable transports to get around the censors."
The problem is, EVERY pluggable transport is trivially detectable. And of all of the pluggable transports, snowflake is by far the easiest to detect. The current suite of pluggable transports are nothing more than a security facade. I wouldn't even call them "better than nothing." If you are in an environment that requires bridges or pluggable transports to connect to Tor, then using them becomes easily detectable.