Proactive Response and Detection of TOR Anonymizers

This paper describes a possible attack to allow TOR traffic to be deanonymized. Can tor protect Against this?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309533083_Proactive_Response_and_Detection_of_TOR_Anonymizers_through_Signature_and_Heuristic-based_Mechanisms

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