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November 24, 2013, 07:02:30 PM |
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It could feed you transactions that are fake and will never confirm. If you're not waiting for confirmations, then you could be fooled by this. The Satoshi client has all the data needed to validate even unconfirmed transactions, so the tx can't actually be fake (although with a MITM you cannot know if the tx was really propagated and thus, whether it could be double spent).
Basically, Tor is bad news unless you're OK with waiting for confirmations (preferably, several), and that's true regardless of which client you use. Even if you THINK you're OK with waiting, the MITM could filter out block announcements so you just think the network is being really unlucky and not finding a block, so you give up waiting and decide to risk it.
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