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Spying On Tor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shocked-and-apalled-and-totally-not-surprised dept.

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."

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  1. Re:you're insane to use TOR for anything serious by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Redundant

    TOR is a great concept but horribly slow and certainly insecure by default
    I'm sorry, what?
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  2. You Can't Sue China by Jason+Earl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can't sue China. Therefore the license doesn't matter.

  3. Re:How can ... by Fizzl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    publickeys in a secure way

    And why would you need to do that in a "secure way"? Public keys are.... public! For christs sake..
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