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Quote of the week
The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor, also known as "The Onion Router," a sophisticated privacy tool that lets users navigate and send documents through the internet anonymously.
The siphoned documents, supposedly stolen by Chinese hackers or spies who were using the Tor network to transmit the data, were the basis for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's assertion in 2006 that his organization had already "received over one million documents from 13 countries" before his site was launched, according to the article in The New Yorker. -- Wired (Log in to post comments)
Quote of the week Posted Jun 3, 2010 6:26 UTC (Thu) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Not really though? Most likely they deployed Exit Node Sniffing, which is a different thing and quite a well known issue.
Quote of the week Posted Jun 3, 2010 7:15 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
Yes, one of the guys ran the exit node.
The whole article is well worth reading. It's a lengthy 11 page feature that seems well researched.
Quote of the week Posted Jun 3, 2010 14:23 UTC (Thu) by agl (subscriber, #4541) [Link]
Keep in mind that Wikileaks denies that this is true: http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/15306369402
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