Tor Open To Attack

An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers have written a paper that lays out an attack against Tor (PDF) in enough detail to cause Roger Dingledine a fair amount of heartburn. The essential avenue of attack is that Tor doesn't verify claims of uptime or bandwidth, allowing an attacker to advertise more than it need deliver, and thus draw traffic. If the attacker controls the entry and exit node and has decent clocks, then the attacker can link these together and trace someone through the network."

Comments

Re:WTFITOREH?

[gtall]

Hey fucktard, it stand for The Onion Router...get it?

Gerry

Re:welcome to the watchlist

[jb.hl.com]

ELL OH ELL.

Erm, "free software sucks"? I've coded some free software (a tiny useless piece of public domain stuff, but still) before, released it, got it put into the Debian archive (yes, you can apt-get a tiny little piece of jb.hl.com now. Get you paranoid yet?). I use Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird and the GIMP almost daily, and up until recently used Linux pretty much full time. What planet are you on? Microsoft don't rule, they do a lot of suspect things, I just find Windows to be the best platform available for what I want to do, and they're certainly undeserving of the kind of irrational hatred you specialise in.

I don't hate Slashdot. I just don't like you. Get that, Twit? I don't like you, or your FUD, or your baseless accusations, or your bizarre messianic complex. The fact you seriously think a multi-billion dollar corporation is sending footsoldiers out to get you because you post bad things about them on Slashdot is testament to your utter lunacy. It is not Slashdot I dislike, it is you personally. Got that? Good.

Another hearty LOL at you for posting that link to you annotating my comments again. You do realise it's all bullshit, and anyone reading the comments can see as such, don't you? I hope so.