Spying On Tor

juct writes "The long-standing suspicion that the anonymizing network TOR is abused to catch sensitive data by Chinese, Russian, and American government agencies as well as hacking groups gets new support. Members of the Teamfurry community found TOR exit-nodes which only forward unencrypted versions of certain protocols. These peculiar configurations invite speculation as to why they are set up in this way. Another tor exit node has been caught doing MITM attacks using fake SSL certificates."

Comments

No expectation of anonymity

[athloi]

How does anyone expect anonymity? Traffic must somewhere go through ISPs, most of which rent their upstream from large providers like AT&T, who is surely not the only large corporation to get in bed with the government or anyone else who can pay. Enough of that information loaded into a database and compared will yield information about the suspect, even if it's too complex to explain to a "jury of your peers."

If you want anonymity, SSH through a string of compromised Eastern European servers to a comfortably log-agnostic Indonesian ISP, and do all your surfing through Lynx/Links. That's the only stab at anonymity you'll get, and they'll probably just install a keylogger anyway. Freedom is slavery.

Not what tor was intended for!

[sammydee]

Tor was never intended to SECURE traffic. It is an ANOMYMISER. It is designed to cope with compromised nodes and still provide military grade anonymity.

It's important to remember that security and anonymity are different things.