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."

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Re:COMSEC, not SIGINT

[hotdiggitydawg]

Tor is known to be used by the military ... for the same reasons anybody else would use it. Downloading pr0n?