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Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA
An anonymous reader writes: In response to a slew of new research about network-level attacks against Tor, academics from the U.S. and Israel built a new Tor client called Astoria designed to beat adversaries like the NSA, GCHQ, or Chinese intelligence who can monitor a user's Tor traffic from entry to exit. Astoria differs most significantly from Tor's default client in how it selects the circuits that connect a user to the network and then to the outside Internet. The tool is an algorithm designed to more accurately predict attacks and then securely select relays that mitigate timing attack opportunities for top-tier adversaries.
Should be 'Academics hypothesize better tor client', since all they're giving out is their analysis and not sourcecode there's no way to verify their claims.
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Paranoia on a site hosted in a country where Sgt. Friendly of the local Police dept. rides around on an APC in full riot gear ready to pepper spray protesters in the face in a country with "free speech" written as an inalienable right?
Trust has been eroding steadily for decades
Just remember: if somebody is interested in finding out what you are doing, and they have unlimited resources to do so, then you WILL get caught no matter how good you think your tools are, no matter how careful you think you are.