Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 4, 2013 @09:00AM from the out-of-action dept.

First time accepted submitter elysiuan writes "The founder of Freedom Hosting has been arrested in Ireland and is awaiting extradition to USA. In a crackdown the FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half of the onion sites in the TOR network have been compromised, including the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail. The FBI has also embedded a 0-day Javascript attack against Firefox 17 on Freedom Hosting's server. It appears to install a tracking cookie and a payload that phones home to the FBI when the victim resumes non-TOR browsing. Interesting implications for The Silk Road and the value of Bitcoin stemming from this. The attack relies on two extremely unsafe practices when using TOR: Enabled Javascript, and using the same browser for TOR and non-TOR browsing. Any users accessing a Freedom Hosting hosted site since 8/2 with javascript enabled are potentially compromised."

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Re:Computer Intrusion by msobkow · 2013-08-04 09:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Already modded down in 30 seconds.
Fuck you Americans.
Fuck you all.

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Re:Computer Intrusion by mwvdlee · 2013-08-04 09:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And a few minutes later it's "+4 insightful".
Do you always judge prematurely?

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