Launching Anonymous Attacks Using the Tor Network

An anonymous reader writes "Nitesh Dhanjani over at O'Reilly Network describes how malicious users can launch attacks over the Internet anonymously using the Tor network. Looks like the flip side of the Tor project is that it allows anyone to launch network scans and exploits anonymously. Great, just what we need now."

Comments

Now, that's a discovery!

[Gadzinka]

I was operating mixmaster server some time ago. After couple of months of operation I've had couple of court orders[1] to reveal identity of people for which I was the last hop in mixmaster network. I decided to check outgoing mail for which I was last hop[2]. Around 90% of that mail was spam, scam, child pornography, harassment and simillar illegal and/or unethical stuff.

That was the end of mixmaster@hell.pl.

Oh, I believe, that there are some people in dictatorships, or some whistleblowers and other people, that really need anonymity on the net. But the reality is that whenever you make such a service available to population at large, it's the scum of the earth that dominates it.

Robert

[1] at least next best thing in my country, because here orders for search etc are issued by prosecution; don't ask me, why it is, it's stupid when the party to a conflict sings search warrants for the other party;

[2] you can't view mails that are just passing through your system in mixmaster network, they are encrypted; onl the mails that leave mixmaster network through your system are cleartext (if they aren't internally encrypted, of course);