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> The high number of high-speed relays and exits in Germany mean that it is not too uncommon to get both a German guard and exit. This gives the state an easier time if they want to target someone using traffic correlation attacks.

> That also does not take in account the planned German law that will allow authorities to redirect traffic to state-owned servers, to infect users with viruses/Trojans. This is especially a concern for third-world users of Tor who are going to mainly accessing non-HTTPS sites on a computer without the best security.

Did you read the article in its entirety?

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> not too uncommon to get both a German guard and exit.

The solution here is more non-German nodes not to shit on the Germans that are already hosting lots.

Maybe there is a language barrier at play here but just seems bizarre how aggressively “the German” is being singled out:

>the German will give itself as many powers as it can to spy on its own citizens and those abroad.

Maybe this is because of the visibility.

If your security legislation is often declared partly illegal by the Verfassungsgericht (latest [1]), you leave the impression of reaching too far by default.

If your courts do not declare (too far reaching) laws illegal, you leave the impression to have been right in your demands.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/world/europe/germany-priv...

Is your argument that strict controls makes corruption appear more prevalent than it is in reality?

Here is a different way to think about it. You are a police officer and interrogate 100 honest people who never lie and 25 people confess their crimes and the rest are innocent. Then you interrogate 100 people who always lie (75 are innocent) and you can only prove 15 of them guilty. From the outside it looks like honest people have a higher chance to be criminals. Doing the right thing can destroy your reputation.

I think you could have phrased your question better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

My bad. I chose the wording I used over "Did you even read the article?" to be more polite, but perhaps I should have phrased it in a completely different way altogether. I'll keep it in mind I'm the future.

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