its ok
there isn't enough money on LN to make a sophisticated attack worthwhile.
but I use it, so I'm curious about the differences between LN and tor onion routing?
Same. This guy thinks I don't use Lightning. I'm just being upfront about the weaknesses. Neither Monero or Lightning is perfect and has their own pain points.
Off the top of my head routing is constrained by liquidity so it limits your potential paths to a destination instead of being chosen at random (ideal case for onion routing). The effect becomes more pronounced the larger the payment that you're sending. The more channels a node has on the network, and lower the fees, the more likely it is going to be chosen to be a hop on your route.
I already mentioned this but Lightning amounts aren't encrypted. MPP helps a lot for all this, but still reveals a lower bound and also isn't default for the network. More adoption of blinded paths would also help (preferably default). Something that affects both Tor and LN is that there is no mixing or dummy traffic/transactions which would make it even better from a privacy perspective. But I'm not sure if that is even possible on LN the way it is designed at least.
Off the top of my head routing is constrained by liquidity so it limits your potential paths to a destination instead of being chosen at random (ideal case for onion routing). The effect becomes more pronounced the larger the payment that you're sending. The more channels a node has on the network, and lower the fees, the more likely it is going to be chosen to be a hop on your route.
I already mentioned this but Lightning amounts aren't encrypted. MPP helps a lot for all this, but still reveals a lower bound and also isn't default for the network. More adoption of blinded paths would also help (preferably default). Something that affects both Tor and LN is that there is no mixing or dummy traffic/transactions which would make it even better from a privacy perspective. But I'm not sure if that is even possible on LN the way it is designed at least.