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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. you're insane to use TOR for anything serious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TOR is a great concept but horribly slow and certainly insecure by default, even with SSL

  2. Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Leave it to a group of sexual deviants that should have been euthanized at birth to do such intense research on the software they use to hide their child porn downloads. I can only hope that a few of the sick furry fucks get arrested and castrated before they fix the flaw.

  3. Re:Wolves in Sheep's Clothing by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks like someone Tor a new ass...and the big, fe(de)ral wolf is deeply embedded... hungry like the poof, umm, I mean wolf. I think someone IS crying wolf. End-to-end connect-shun with a big, hoary man-in-the-middle of the comm stream.... Jacking the pipe, sucking off the line...

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    Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
  4. Furfags! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yiff in hell!