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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."
To our contributors, even though we don't know who you are *wink wink*
..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
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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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.