Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 17, 2014 @09:35AM from the price-of-privacy dept.

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."

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Secure by darkain · 2014-11-17 10:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

No matter how much effort goes into securing the transport layer, it means absolutely nothing if the end nodes themselves are insecure. Something as simple as a SQL injection or remote code execution could easily deanonymize an end node. With how quickly many of those sites sprung up, one of the current theories is lack of security on the end-points themselves is what was attacked, not the Tor network itself.