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Swedish police arrest security expert who cracked embassy e-mail passwords (ars technica)
Swedish police have arrested and questioned Dan Egerstad, the security researcher who listened in on Tor traffic, as reported by ars technica. "Swedish law enforcement authorities, who allegedly informed Egerstad that he is suspected of breaking into foreign computers, confiscated hardware and documents at his apartment and then questioned him at length. After what Egerstad describes as a two-hour interrogation, he was permitted to leave. Egerstad told the Sydney Morning Herald that the raid is harming his business and that the confiscated equipment and records still have not been returned even though he has yet to be charged with any crime."
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Swedish police arrest security expert who cracked embassy e-mail passwords (ars technica) Posted Nov 15, 2007 22:20 UTC (Thu) by leshachek (guest, #49071) [Link] i maybe missing something but what's a difference between Tor and any home router with NAT enabled? The latter seems just a one hop Tor. If that is correct, then any home user can user their router similar to the Tor provided it is an open source router. Nevertheless it's sad to hear the story repeats again when DES or similar highly secure by government encryption system was decrypted in public. How would you know something you claim to be of a value if that known only to a restricted group of people?
Swedish police arrest security expert who cracked embassy e-mail passwords (ars technica) Posted Nov 15, 2007 22:25 UTC (Thu) by CyberDog (guest, #29668) [Link] Well, what good is a one-hop device when its exit node is your home's IP address? One primary purpose of Tor is to obscure the source of traffic. You shouldn't be able to trace the source of a connection back from its exit node to where it originated. Sure, you may not know what LAN IP your traffic came from if using a DNAT device, but who cares? You're still responsible for all traffic leaving your public IP.
Swedish authorities want the passwords for themselves Posted Nov 15, 2007 23:25 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] Sounds like they do anyway :)
Swedish authorities want the passwords for themselves Posted Nov 16, 2007 13:39 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link] Egerstad published all the usernames and passwords, if I remember correctly.
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