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BLKNSLVR 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Another police raid in Germany

In parallel with gea0's comment, using a Russian state-sanctioned exit node would make tracing efforts difficult-to-impossible for western government / law enforcement.

u8080 9 months ago [–]

Could you explain what "state-sanctioned" means here?

BLKNSLVR 9 months ago | [–]

Whatever xkjyeah meant when he said it.

Likely run by Russian intelligence services or their catspaws and therefore heavily monitored and logged.

US intelligence likely run their own tor nodes as well.

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