hehe yeah. This is why I kind of laugh when people are so paranoid that they want to exclude all US nodes, especially when they are US citizens. By excluding all US nodes they are essentially ensuring that the NSA can monitor the end points of their circuits to US destinations. Imagine it like this. US Citizen -> Entry in Australia -> Middle in Canada -> Exit in Germany -> Destination in US Between US and Australia there is international traffic, between Australia and Canada the traffic is likely traveling internationally through the US, between Canada and Germany the traffic is likely traveling internationally through the US and between Germany and the destination in the US the traffic is definitely traveling internationally through the US. Now Australian signals intelligence can pick up the traffic from US to Australia, Canadian signals intelligence can pick up the traffic from Australia and to Germany, and the German signals intelligence can pick up the traffic from Canada and to the destination in the US. Arma has a good point, unless Australia, Canada and Germany are sharing intelligence (or have the US sharing intelligence with them), they are not likely able to view the entire circuit, and additionally unless Germany and Australia are sharing intelligence (or getting intelligence from the US) they are not likely able to perform an end point timing attack by themselves. But the NSA doesn't need anybody to share intelligence with them to follow that entire path from start to finish, they only need to monitor all Tor traffic crossing the US borders. Of course it appears that the NSA is probably also monitoring Tor traffic between US nodes, which most people thought they were doing as well, but it appears that they are actually doing it legally now whereas before people assumed they were doing it illegally. The moral of the story is that the NSA is the most powerful signals intelligence agency in the world, and they are beyond a doubt the best positioned signals intelligence agency in the world. Using a low latency network to try to hide from the NSA is not a good idea.