> They're also likely to be wiretapping magnets.

That's an interesting point. Can we go deeper into this?

Does this mean that, everything else being equal, the good locations for Tor nodes also happen to be the good locations for surveillance tapping points?


If yes, my first thought was that maybe we'd want to adjust our formula so that Tor relays don't coincide too much with these wiretap points. However, given that the ASs of Tor relays are public I'm not sure it matters---if intelligence prioritizes spying on Tor relays they will simply download the list and tap the desired relays, regardless of where the relay is topographically located.

Taken together, I'm inclined to say this remains the right way to prioritize ASs for new Tor nodes.

-V