using bitcoin so back to today's episode icloud private really is doing really great things to make it hard for advertisers but there are caveats first things first is icloud private relay um it uses essentially two nodes so let's have a look here again it uses an ingress proxy in an egress proxy ingress proxies are going to be operated by apple if my understanding is correct egress proxies are essentially cdn partners so one can see here in an article that fastly cloudflare and akamai tree of the world's biggest content delivery networks are partnering up with apple which means that essentially when one accesses this system ingress is owned by apple that said it might be operated by one of those cdns i'm not sure apple will start spawning servers all over the world and the egress proxy is probably owned by another provider so the fact that this and that are not the same provider it kind of means that if they don't collude it really helps us be more private on the internet that said caveat number one if one logs in to a website even though we're going through this kind of onion routing here with triple layer encryption uh we are still revealing who we are so i mean whatever like that's always said in the context of tor like whatever you do if you deliberately tell or log into a website uh well your anonymity is broken so this here is not designed first things first for to be anonymous it's not at all a replacement to tour why because all of those different providers probably have relationships with nation state surveillance programs uh so i wouldn't start using this for like whistle blowing or anything serious i think this is great to fight back to the advertising uh networks and data aggregators but it's not something one would want to use for anonymity that said if ingress proxy and egress proxy do not collude it's actually quite brilliant and the fact that the ingress proxy and egress proxy will be in the same geographic region that makes it super fast so one of the big differences between this and tor is performance those were talking about cdn providers that shave milliseconds off requests so one should not feel that uh you know impact in a significant way now we are going to be encrypting information many more times so that will definitely use some more battery life if we're on mobile and it will also add some latency but giving all of those providers in the same place it's quite fast now compare this to how tor works torah uses something called onion routing and onion routing is a way where the client that is to our browser or whatever it connects to an entry guard the entry guard uh those nodes are they have a very strict governance and they're um very closely monitored by the tor foundation uh and essentially then the traffic is routed through a middle relay and then through an exit relay to the destination so essentially entry guard is egress proxy and exit relay is egress proxy so what's happening there is in the context of tor we're adding one node and usually nodes are very far apart they're in different jurisdictions which means that governments have to collude together to be able to piece all of that together so from the context of anonymity tor is by orders of magnitude better than you know
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