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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."
It's not really a troll, a troll is designed to draw a hostile reaction.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of child-pornographers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Now now, I know Tor isn't just used for naughty stuff. I just thought it was funny. Sorta.
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
In Soviet Russia, Tor attacks YOU!
So, ze kiddie porn is on vor mind, eh Social Engineer? Very interesting. Who besides grandstanding politicians, media whores and actual pedophiles actually thinks or talks about kiddie porn? You must be one of the bag guys. The FBI vill be watching everything you do for the next ten years.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I for one cry for our new onion-sniffing overlords.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
The military and secretive NSA operations do not care about you or your open source proxy software. Stop trying to make yourself feel special by writing convoluted conspiracy theories.
Hmmm... I'm sure Freenet didn't get this much attention when they discovered that their encryption code was only actually encrypting half the data (128 bits out of every 256 bit word). Must be because no-one actually uses Freenet...