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Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services
apexcp writes The web's biggest anonymity network is considering a crowdfunding campaign to overhaul its hidden services. From the article: "In the last 15 months, several of the biggest anonymous websites on the Tor network have been identified and seized by police. In most cases, no one is quite sure how it happened. The details of such a campaign have yet to be revealed. With enough funding, Tor could have developers focusing their work entirely on hidden services, a change in developer priorities that many Tor users have been hoping for in recent years."
..than to have the FBI wondering why I'm contributing money to this cause. I applaud the goal, but I'll let someone more altruistic than me step up to bat.
Save me the "When Good Men Do Nothing," I have family and other considerations outside Slashdot idealism.
Letter To Iran
The government connects to the kiddy porn site and downloads a 500mb video, they have PRISM tell them the computer that transferred 500mb of data to their computer, the computer that transferred 500mb of data to that computer, and so on. It's metadata all the way back to the actual hidden service where the 500mb file came from. As a bonus, they can have PRISM tell them everyone else that connected to a computer that connected to a computer that connected to a computer that connected to the kiddy porn site, too. Works for data of any size and type, not just kiddy porn, as long as the filesize is unique enough or you don't give a shit about false positives or perjury.
Tor has to do something about the timing and metadata attacks if it is to remain relevant. The only issue is whether they can do something about it without making it even slower than it already is.
Finally the world has a way to give their respective government a mighty middle finger after all the bullshit that's been going on lately. I hope they get millions from every corner of Earth.
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