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Tor - The Yin or the Yang?

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-the-shadows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a interesting article on Tor, The Onion Router project sponsored by the EFF. Tor aims to offer anonymous internet use. Once sponsored by the Naval Research Lab with support from DARPA, it is now managed by The Free Haven Project. Although Tor claims to improve safety and security, the article goes into detail on how Tor can be used as a anonymous attack platform."

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  1. Re:the need by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Informative

    any good thing doesn't require you to hide behind anything.

    Well for example, it can be used by dissidents to safely express their political views, be it in the PRC, Burma or the United States...

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  2. Latency hurts, however... by nweaver · · Score: 4, Informative

    A: Tor is a documented protocol. If you really REALLY want to block Tor on your network, configure your IDS to recognise the protocol setup, and kill THAT.

    B: You can't quake through Tor. Tor only supports TCP, and it adds a fair bit of latency to boot.

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