Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero

Chainanalysis is certainly not running the Tor attack as described here.

It’s technically possible, but not really practical. We’d have seen darknet markets as they currently exist eradicated a long ago.

This isn't deanonymization, it is modifying and infiltrating nodes to then listen what is happening from naive users connecting to them.

There was never an expectation of privacy when you connect to servers outside your control with non-encrypted data. That is the reason why the article itself mentions that this isn't working when running your own node, as most people do.

This is the same thing as complaining that Monero is no longer anonymous because Windows is capturing screenshots and keyboard presses when you open the desktop app.

Monero remains anonymous by default.

It always seemed weird from Day 1 when I reviewed Monero vs Zcash to rely on anonymization that depends on other nodes and number of honest peers, instead of relying on technical anonymization that Zcash does, seems much more reliable and long-term workable, even though it was much harder and took them longer to arrive at good solutions.

September 17, 2024

So chainalysis is working for governments now? I guess it makes sense.