emptywheel

Sure, but I've wondered if there are additional aspects of it. Something about Wyden's emphasis on "knowing" collection of "entirely domestic" "communications" calls to mind something potentially even more straightforward.

It is straightforward. You suck off an exit node. Voila: Foreign traffic, domestic traffic. Weed out the domestic but in the process look for porn, CFAA violators, and BLM.

I wouldn't doubt it. From a tactical point of view, though, I'd be a bit surprised if Wyden were going to such lengths to highlight an activity that primarily involved something as strongly associated with CP in the public's mind as Tor. Open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

And also associated with dissidents. Is it your official position that it's cool NSA is sucking up dissident traffic and deciding whether it's criminal or not on the back side?

Of course not. Our view would no doubt be the human rights view that a government interference with privacy violates rights unless it's explicitly authorized by law, necessary, and proportionate (and non-discriminatory)

The NSA grabbing Tor traffic in a way that fails any of those tests wouldn't pass muster with us. The activity would also need to be subject to sufficient independent oversight.

Well then, I can't understand your silence. >300 Tor exit nodes were declared Russian indicators of compromise in December 2016, with a seeming preference for those nodes run by noted privacy activists. All that's fair game, as I understand it.